Top 100 Water But Quotes
#1. Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
Bertrand Russell
#2. Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
Brian Jacques
#3. We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it ... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.
Sandra Postel
#4. I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.
Mike Colter
#5. When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.
Neville Goddard
#6. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker than both.
Larry Hagman
#7. If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
Saint Basil
#8. Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
Peter Kreeft
#9. Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's not just a question of looking, but of doing, in relation to this, in relation to that, in relation to the space between things.
Malcolm Morley
#11. There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"
Mitch Hedberg
#12. I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.
F. R. Scott
#13. Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.
Scott O'Dell
#14. One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
Jeff Goodell
#15. Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
Indira Gandhi
#16. Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
Laozi
#17. Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Steven Pinker
#18. Listen to me, young Hardy. A day will come for you when play becomes torment. When you are drowning, not in water but on dry land. In that hour remember me. I will preserve you.
Steven Pressfield
#19. You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!
Joe E. Lewis
#20. It's never the value of water but thirst, it's never the value of life but death and it's never about the friendship but trust.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#21. The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.
Jane Yolen
#22. They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.
Fred Larson
#23. It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.
Marcus Samuelsson
#24. We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.
Yasmine Galenorn
#25. Reality was being alone and afraid. Reality was standing underneath a pounding spray of hot water but knowing I'd never really be clean. The
Skye Warren
#26. A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood
#27. Fishes love water,but not hot water.
Men love women,who love Delilah(Samson&Delilah)?
Peter Irabor
#28. We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
Marshall McLuhan
#29. Nobody drowns by falling in the water ... but by staying there.
Shiv Khera
#30. The Colorado River was at a record low and the towers in Lake Mead stood high out of the water. But the Angelenos committed communal suicide by watering lawns as usual.
Robert A. Heinlein
#31. And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.
Una LaMarche
#32. jesus can walk on water, but Chick Norris can swim through land
Mestre Deputado
#33. Ya think you's walkin' on water, but turns out you just got piss in your shoes.
John Green
#34. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.
Janeane Garofalo
#35. Blood is thicker than water, but water is easier to swallow.
P.L. Byrd
#36. A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.
Swami Vivekananda
#37. I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.
Marshall McLuhan
#38. The wave hits. It doesn't even slow. Hungries slam full-tilt into the mesh and into the concrete stanchions that support it. It leans inwards, groans and creaks, but seems to be holding. The front ranks of walking corpses are treading water. But
M.R. Carey
#39. Everyone wants clean air and clean water, but my hope is that we will not regulate it to the point where we drive businesses and industries out of this country, to the point where entrepreneurs cannot start or expand their businesses because they simply can't afford to do so.
Bob Latta
#40. God made only water, but man made wine.
Victor Hugo
#41. Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
Frank Herbert
#42. Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.
Lucy Connors
#43. We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.
Tom Dreesen
#44. I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.
Riccardo Tisci
#45. If You Constantly Procrastinate Over The Things You Need To Do To In Your Life ... You Can't Blame Anyone But Yourself. Many Can Lead You To Water But It's Up To You To Drink!
Timothy Pina
#46. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.
Cuthbert Soup
#47. Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
C.S. Lewis
#48. Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
Elizabeth Kostova
#49. Vodka is like water, but with consequences.
Tom Rachman
#50. Blood is thicker than water, but it can still be contaminated.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.
Georges Simenon
#52. You can lead a horse to water, but they might prefer wiskey
Jeri Estes
#53. Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.
Walter Mosley
#54. Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
Yann Martel
#55. But certain religious leaders in London, not mere materialists, have begun in our day not to deny the highly disputable water, but to deny the indisputable dirt.
G.K. Chesterton
#56. In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
John Selden
#57. In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
Alphonsus Liguori
#58. A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.
John Berridge
#59. In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty. Ned Low
Patricia Goodwin
#60. They say blood is thicker than water, but that doesn't mean shit. Everyone needs water to live.
Vi Keeland
#61. I don't know what's in the water but chivalrous men seem to be landing here along with the weird lights in the sky and nine coloured rainbows. They said the end of the world was close, I just didn't expect men with manners to be part of the equation
Poppet
#62. They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
Hermann Hesse
#63. Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.
Yann Martel
#64. What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.
David Nicholls
#65. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.
Joseph M. Marshall III
#66. I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.
Nathaniel Rich
#67. Pixy dust thickened to make my eyes water, but after the loud complaints and muttered disappointment, the Disney nightmare subsided as quickly as it had come.
Kim Harrison
#68. People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
Jay-Z
#69. I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
Tori Amos
#70. At 211 degrees you have hot water, but when it hits 212 degrees it boils. Just think of all the difference that one degree makes in your life.
212 Degrees
#71. ACT11.15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. ACT11.16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Anonymous
#72. You're a big one,[ ... ] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.
Neil Gaiman
#73. Obscure as muddied water. But, with stillness, muddy waters clear. Can you also act while remaining still?
Lao-Tzu
#74. Blood is thicker than water, but they still use corn starch as a thickener on cooking shows
Josh Stern
#75. The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.
Claire Cameron
#76. You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
Ric Keller
#77. I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add.
Steven Wright
#78. Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.
Katherine Anne Porter
#79. Love is like going fishing, you never know what size fish will be taken out of the water, but big or small you will be the one deciding to either kill it or keep it close to you under good care and nature it. But firstly you have to take the courage to go fishing.
Marcus L. Lukusa
#80. A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
Ramakrishna
#81. I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.
Mariella Frostrup
#82. Many people think trees grow so big from soil and water, but this is not true. Trees get their mass from the air. They gobble up airborne carbon dioxide and perform an act of chemical fission by using the energy from sunshine ... Essentially, trees are made of air and sunshine.
Ned Hayes
#84. I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.
Maria Thayer
#85. [Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.
Louis Berkhof
#86. I don't know what the exact physical dynamics are that cause a shower curtain to attach itself to your body when you turn on the water but, since my shower was surrounded on all sides by curtains, I turned on the water and became a vinyl, vacuum-sealed sheriff burrito.
Craig Johnson
#87. If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.
Vinko Vrbanic
#88. You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
Stan Laurel
#89. If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#90. A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.
French Montana
#92. Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.
Frank Sinatra
#93. Sometimes I feel like everyone else is carrying a bucket of water but I'm trying to carry an ocean. its very hard. sometimes I would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn't be alive.
Heidi Cullinan
#94. Who goes to the beach without trying to touch the water? The one who cannot see the water, but if the blind wishes to FEEL the water, he shall not retreat, just as long as he holds hands with FAITH.
Antonia Perdu
#95. Then next time bring more water, but don't cry for this time. There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?
Yaa Gyasi
#96. Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don't believe there are children who hate books. There are just children who haven't yet found the right books for them.
Amanda Craig
#97. Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.
Peter Cameron
#98. When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!
Adolf Hitler
#99. Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.
D.J. MacLennan
#100. Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.
Manoj Arora
