Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

The scalded head feares cold water.

George Herbert

Let none say, I will not drinke water.

Gary Hamel

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Humphrey Bogart

Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.

W. C. Fields

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

Zhuangzi

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.

Warren Zevon

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Winona LaDuke

We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

Rick Warren

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

Rick Riordan

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

Veronica Roth

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Rebecca Solnit

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

Ruth Ozeki

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?

Zig Ziglar

If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

I know I won't even go in the water and we've canceled all of our snorkel sails.

Mike May

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

Jose Bergamin

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jorge Luis Borges

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

Kellan Lutz

I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.

Henry Adams

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Henry Adams

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

Henry Hazlitt

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

James Richardson

Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.

Liam Payne

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Johnny Weissmuller

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Louis MacNeice

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

A. E. Housman

And like a skylit water stood, The bluebells in the azured wood

This is like my water in Devore. It comes right from the mountains.