Top 100 Quotes About Waters
#1. Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.
Wayne Muller
#2. Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#3. You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus
#4. I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus Waters
John Green
#5. Popping off, I say, "I wouldn't mind." Even if it tastes like shit, I'd swallow Alex Waters' jizz. Then I'd get the T-shirt.
Helena Hunting
#6. We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#7. Some people struggle and fight so fiercely at one level of existence that they prevent themselves from moving to the next level of existence where the waters
John C. Friel
#8. Somebody embroidered the doily.
Somebody waters the plant,
or oils it, maybe. Somebody
arranges the rows of cans
so that they softly say:
esso - so - so - so
to high-strung automobiles.
Somebody loves us all.
Elizabeth Bishop
#9. Yeshua shows us the Way to be saved from all that we think threatens us on the dark seas of our lives. Only when we, too, see what He sees can we leave the treasured boat that we think will save us and walk on the troubled waters that we thought would surely drown us.
Ted Dekker
#10. The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
Catherine Booth
#11. People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.
Daniel Humm
#12. Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
John D. Voelker
#13. A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
William Cowper
#14. I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
Sami Gayle
#15. The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
Richard M. Nixon
#16. Because she, too, was the Dark One, wasn't she? They all were, as much as they were all Forest Dwellers, without Elyon's cleansing waters. Yet they were chosen. It was up to them to follow either the one who had made them dark, or the one who had chosen each of them. Teeleh or Elyon.
Ted Dekker
#17. To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen, it is too late to build dikes and embankments.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#18. Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.
Debby Ryan
#19. Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
Charles Lamb
#20. The blind was down; but outside the moon rose up out of the sea, and laid the silver path across the waters that is the way to places at the edge of the world and beyond, for those that can walk on it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real - and here's why we have to care about it - I think that we "unicorns" do pose a threat to people who want to muddy the waters and keep others in the dark.
Katharine Hayhoe
#22. I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.
Bob Dylan
#23. He reached down from heaven and took me and drew me out of my great trials. He rescued me from deep waters.
Anonymous
#24. Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
Heraclitus
#25. The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
Terry Pratchett
#26. We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
Annie Dillard
#27. Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.
Charles Spurgeon
#28. There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken.
Nadia Hashimi
#29. Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#30. Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.
Lynn Austin
#31. White villas glittered against the olive woods! What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!
Kenneth Grahame
#32. Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.
Kay Ryan
#33. Maybe still waters did run deep. Or God on your side was the ultimate soul balm.
Jonathan Kellerman
#34. If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.
Johannes Kepler
#35. For the moment I can think of nothing - except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.
Henry Miller
#36. In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.
Edward Young
#37. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Anonymous
#38. At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.
Sigurd F. Olson
#39. Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
Wm. Paul Young
#40. 'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.
Shawn Amos
#41. Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. His desire was as deep and boundless as the sea, but when the tide receded, the rocks of shame and guilt thrust up as sharp as ever. Sometimes the waves would cover them, but they remained beneath the waters, hard and black and slimy.
George R R Martin
#43. New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack.
Sylvia Plath
#45. Where dark woods hide secrets and mountains are fierce and bold. Deep waters hold reflections of times lost long ago. I will heed every story, take hold of my own dream. Be as strong as the sea is stormy, be as proud as an eagle's scream.
Julie Fowlis
#46. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#47. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. -augustus waters
John Green
#48. She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.
Travis Luedke
#49. And your green eyes are the color of the hills- the color of my home.' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Aye, there's something about you, Lindsey Waters.
Cyndi Tefft
#50. Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
#51. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#52. The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.
Pema Chodron
#53. We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.
Rick Wright
#54. Once I climb in, will they believe it's me even if they know who I am, or think I'm just a John Waters impersonator? Which I am in a way every day ... only older.
John Waters
#55. Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."
Computer: "I don't understand-"
Issac: "Me neither. Pause
John Green
#56. Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.
Neal Shusterman
#57. With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. Inshore, across the pellucid jade-green waters of the bay, gently ruffled by the north-easterly breeze that was sweetly tempering the torrid heat of the sun, rose the ramage of masts and spars of the shipping riding there at anchor.
Rafael Sabatini
#59. We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.
Lewis Thomas
#62. From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.
Tim Cope
#63. There you might celebrate that fact by consuming a Three Mile Limit, a drink that literally commemorated the end of U.S. territorial waters and the beginning of boozing. When
Ted Haigh
#64. There are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#65. Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.
Cora Carmack
#66. Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it.
Rolf Schonberger
#67. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
John Green
#68. While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar.
John Green
#69. As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.
Ann Druyan
#70. Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
Zooey Deschanel
#71. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms ...
Barack Obama
#72. But your own tears blind you to mine.
I am not neglectful of friendship,
but we two squat in the same coracle,
we are both swamped by the same stormy waters,
I have not the gifts of a happy man ... Often enough.
Catullus
#73. Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.
Edmund Burke
#74. An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#75. That was the nature of the waters. You never knew what lurked below.
Brandon Sanderson
#76. The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
Elisabeth Elliot
#77. Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.
Bryan Davis
#78. A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.
George Arnold
#79. Playing along in the yard,
The blue sky sparkles against the earthly green,
Creating such harmony!
A pond, nearby.
Untroubled waters mirrors the ether's dreams.
A grand echo of my Divine Heart!
I am One
Arnaud Saint-Paul
#80. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.
Samuel Beckett
#81. A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. Sunken fleets of streaming gold are superior to all other surrounding vessels upon the raging waters, for if submerged riches were meant to be and eternally remain hidden to the naked eye, I would wish it to be so, as long as reaching hands are placed as pure
Aaron Ozee
#83. Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora ... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him.
Tiffany Reisz
#84. Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily ... and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works. - Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19
Douai-Rheims Bible
#85. And so, in the space of a few yards, the sacred springs of Gafsa, those laughing, chattering, amorous waters of the Romans that well up here in a river of warmth and purity, had been reduced to those of a Cloaca Maxima.
Charles Sprawson
#86. I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer
John Green
#87. The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#88. When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
Kristin Armstrong
#89. The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.
Johannes Kepler
#90. In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
Michael Ondaatje
#91. They say that once you've drank from the waters of the
great Zambezi, you'll always have Africa with you. Maybe
that is why Africa feels like home.
Skeeter Wesinger
#92. For the boat in a lake to be able to appreciate the calm waters, it must know the giant waves of the oceans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies ... waters that have no life.
Ann Voskamp
#94. You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.
Charles Spurgeon
#95. waters cannot quench love,'" Wesley finished the quote. "'Rivers cannot wash it away.'" "'Nor will rivers overflow it,
Tiffany Reisz
#96. This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it.
William Shakespeare
#97. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]
John H. Aughey
#98. Today is going to be a perfect, perfect day." Trina smiled and the waters of the stream continued to rush by, as if his words meant nothing.
James Dashner
#99. And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
Alexander Pope
#100. The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders..
Izaak Walton
