Quotes About Stagnant Water

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

James Carville

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Pope Francis

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Chanakya

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

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

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

Agatha Christie

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

Debasish Mridha

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

August Strindberg

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Ming-Dao Deng

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

January Jones

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

Confucius

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

Colleen Hoover

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

Clarisse Thorn

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

James Wright

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Brian Kernighan

#32. 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

#33. 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