Water Quotes

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

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