Quotes About Stagnant Water

#1. As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

Hosea Ballou

#2. Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

Brian Kernighan

#4. The night lifted, leaving behind it a grayish light the color of stagnant water. Soon there was only a tattered fragment of darkness, hanging in mid-air, the other side of the window. Fear caught my throat. The tattered fragment of darkness had a face. The face was my own.

Elie Wiesel

#5. As long as you fight, you cannot lose ... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.

Bas Rutten

#6. The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

James Fallows

#7. As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

Joseph Pilates

#8. Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Little pools of water tend to become stagnant and useless, but that if they are joined together to
form a big lake, the atmosphere is cooled and there is universal benefit.

Sardar Patel

#10. Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

James Wright

#11. you don't sell your soul to the devil unless part of you is already a little dead inside.

Clarisse Thorn

#12. Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

#13. I'm running with you," he says, without question.

Colleen Hoover

#14. Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Chanakya

#15. Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

Confucius

#16. It's not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

January Jones

#17. A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

Ming-Dao Deng

#18. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

Johannes Brahms

#20. There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.

S.J Perelman

#21. It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

John Steinbeck

#22. If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

Pope Francis

#23. I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Mother Jones

#24. History had already done the really messy work, when Wintermute found him, sifting him out of all of the war's ripe detritus, gliding into the man's flat gray field of consciousness like a water spider crossing the face of some stagnant pool,

William Gibson

#25. When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

August Strindberg

#26. That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

Julie Mehretu

#27. A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#28. After 15 years living in Paris, I felt myself growing old and stagnant - similar to stagnant water sitting in a bowl; cats have a survival instinct not to drink this water. They can sense when it's old and may be carrying air-borne germs. After 15 years in Paris, I no longer felt drinkable.

Roman Payne

#29. You are too smart and too bright to get stuck. Do better. Become a mental athlete. Push yourself so much it's sickening, Stagnant water is full of mosquitos, remember that.

Alida Nugent

#30. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

Paulo Coelho

#31. As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

James Carville

#32. Share your wisdom. It is the best way to help in the progress of life and humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Agatha Christie