Water Seeks Its Own Level Quotes

#1. Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Alison McGhee

#2. You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Bill Paxton

#3. Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

Julia Cameron

#4. Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Al Alvarez

#5. Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people ...

Andrew Carnegie

#6. By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn't working.
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Cassandra Clare

#7. So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?

Sheena Iyengar

#8. How pointless, harboring romantic fantasies about a man who'd made it abundantly clear that he wasn't interested.

Diana Dempsey

#9. For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

Matthew McConaughey

#10. Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Elbert Hubbard

#11. At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

Padgett Powell

#12. There were no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn't give up 'til they died.

Amy Harmon

#13. Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days
too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart
our battle-drum.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#15. The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Sidney Lumet

#17. I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

Lana Del Rey