Top 100 Water Is Quotes
#1. As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
Alan Watts
#2. I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
Seamus Heaney
#3. Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#4. Geniuses don't go mad," he said. "That's what people don't understand. They get out so far out that the water is like glass and they can see for miles and see so much, and in ways people have never seen before.
Steven Hall
#6. I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
Kabir
#7. I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.
Dave Barry
#8. Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, which is cheaper than by truck.
Rick Scott
#9. When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.
Rumi
#10. If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.
Dorothy Cotton
#12. Salt water is cleansing, be it sweat, the ocean, or tears.
Jennifer Nettles
#13. Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell
#14. Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#15. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.
George Orwell
#16. Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.
Kofi Annan
#17. Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
Athenaeus
#18. The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.
Issey Miyake
#19. Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.
Mooji
#21. Water is happy when it falls; water is happy when it rises! We call this as wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.
Jim George
#23. Whether we're standing on the shores of the Pacific or the Atlantic, the water is the same. Love
Sarah McCoy
#24. The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda ... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
Yoweri Museveni
#25. Nothing is beautiful by itself; things are beautiful with other things. Water is beautiful with autumn leafs, with a bird or with a reflection of the clouds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Mark Twain
#27. Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
Robert Jordan
#28. Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps -
Thomm Quackenbush
#29. So that was it. As at a birth, so at a death. Without so much as a kiss-me-quick-and-mind-the-marmalade, the only female in sight is enlisted to trot off and see that the water is boiled. Rustle something up, indeed! What did he take me for, some kind of cowboy?
Alan Bradley
#30. The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water is much better to drink than surface water because it filters out the bacteria that can cause all sorts of problems.
Josh Fox
#31. Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
David Suzuki
#32. Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
#33. Coffee or orange juice?"
"Water is fine."
His eyebrows went up.
"Uh-oh," Auriele said, but she was smiling.
Darryl was not. "Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?
Patricia Briggs
#34. I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
Matthew Fox
#35. Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.
Lao-Tzu
#37. Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
Frans Lanting
#38. Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
Maude Barlow
#39. What sort of water is that?" said Holtzclaw. "The wet kind," said Ms. Rathbun.
Tim Westover
#40. It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#41. There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Mignon McLaughlin
#42. I like to take mustard baths. I combine 4 lbs Epsom salts, 3 oz mustard powder, 12 oz powdered milk, and 1/2 cup baking soda, add in 12 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils, then whisk it and pour 1/4 cup of the mix into the tub while warm water is running.
Natalie Coughlin
#43. Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.
Patricia MacLachlan
#45. Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
Michael Ondaatje
#46. You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.
Annie Proulx
#47. It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.
Mark Ruffalo
#48. Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.
Elfriede Jelinek
#49. The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]
Elias Canetti
#50. I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.
Wallace J. Nichols
#52. Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.
Richard Smalley
#53. Nature ... is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.
Robert Hooke
#54. Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.
M.F. Moonzajer
#55. Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.
Hal Borland
#56. I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?
Wendy Liebman
#57. I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.
Freya Stark
#58. My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.
In this puja all gods have disappeared.
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.
Lahiri Mahasaya
#59. Whiskey is for drinkin', water is for fightin'." She frowned. "Mark Twain," he said.
James Rollins
#60. The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.
Sophie Jordan
#61. As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.
Ben Goldacre
#62. Water is the most essential element in life, because without it you can't make coffee.
Karen Salmansohn
#63. A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.
Dwight L. Moody
#64. Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
William James
#65. I used to feel sorry for them, or sad. Not so much any more. Now I wonder what they did, and I know what they did, and all I can think is how all that water is barely enough to cover it up.
Chris Adrian
#66. Every teacher is a fountain; but you must know that not every fountain's water is drinkable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.
David A. Bednar
#68. How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair
No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#69. Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
Henry Ward Beecher
#70. If your feet are in two buckets and the average temperature of the water is 90 degrees, you're probably fine - unless one bucket is at 35 and the other is at 145 degrees. On average, you're fine. Based on variation, though, you're miserable.
Seth Godin
#71. The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
Thomas Carlyle
#72. When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. So many aspects of nature restore the soul, but for me, being on the water is the most cleansing.
Ashley Farley
#74. Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.
Robert Fulghum
#76. To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
Jane Jacobs
#78. Stale water is a poor drink,' said Annlaw. 'Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.
Lloyd Alexander
#79. Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.
Sam Smith
#80. Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.
Steven Magee
#81. Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us.
Steven Erikson
#83. Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.
Steven Solomon
#85. Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
John Lyly
#86. I can see her. Come close to me, Floy, and tell them," whispered the dying boy, "that the face of the picture of Christ on the staircase at school is not divine enough; the light from it is shining on me now, and the water is shining too, and rippling so fast, so fast." The evening light shone
Charles Dickens
#87. If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.
Troy Polamalu
#88. When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
Flea
#90. I huffed out a deep breath. "It's something huge, isn't it?" Beezle nodded. "Yup."
There was a sound of several limbs splashing in the water. "Is it all squishy and tentacly?"
"Yup."
"I hate my life," I said, and as I turned I conjured a ball of nightfire and threw it.
Christina Henry
#91. I love giving the golden shower. I've done it before in the shower. It's like so sexy, you know, the temperature of your body and the shower water is very different.
Ricky Martin
#92. Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent.
Andrew Fukuda
#93. Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
J. D. Hayworth
#94. I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them.
Simon Van Booy
#95. The laws of thermodynamic s are such that if the water is getting warmer - and I believe it is - the energy of the weather is going to go up.
Charlie Munger
#96. When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
Seth Godin
#97. For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six kilometers, that makes your children sick, that is perhaps the hardest part of your existence.
Alexandra Cousteau
#98. If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
Robin McKinley
#99. Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold - the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.
Suzy Kassem
#100. Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.
Dimitar Sasselov
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