Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Max Ernst

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Matthew Henry

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Maya Angelou

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

Matsuo Basho

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

Matsuo Basho

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Matsuo Basho

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

Matsuo Basho

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Pablo Neruda

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

Plautus

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Philip Larkin

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

Martin Rees

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Mircea Eliade

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

Miranda July

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.

John Owen

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

Nita Ambani

The #lotus comes from the #murkiest #water.. but #grows into the #purest thing.

Nina Fedoroff

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

Markus Zusak

Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.

Markus Zusak

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

Marianne Williamson

God is the water, and you are the faucet.

Marilyn Manson

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.

Meriwether Lewis

Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.

Michael Chertoff

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

Mencius

Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.

Mencius

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

Michelle Williams

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Snoop Dogg

I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive . . . lollipops and Big Macs.

Michael Scott

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

Michael Moriarty

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Nick Flynn

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

Nick Hornby

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.