Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Hass

[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice.

Rick Riordan

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

Edward Burtynsky

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

Edie Brickell

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

John F. Kennedy

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Jonathan Horton

I eat very clean foods, healthy foods and drink a lot of water.

Joyce Carol Oates

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Lee Haney

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

Theresa May

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

Terry Tamminen

Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

Terry Tempest Williams

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Terry Tempest Williams

If you waste water, you die.

Terry Pratchett

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

Rick Riordan

I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.

Swami Vivekananda

The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

St. Jerome

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

Sonya Hartnett

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Roger McGough

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

Ray Kroc

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Thomas Jefferson

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

Richard P. Feynman

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

Winona LaDuke

It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.

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.

Winston Churchill

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Virginia Woolf

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

Vincent D'Onofrio

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

Wong Kar-wai

We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

William Wordsworth

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.