Water Quotes
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Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.
John Kendrick Bangs
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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
Ernest Hemingway
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If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.
Chance The Rapper
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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman R. Augustine
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Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.
George Clarke
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One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.
Leon Bridges
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It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.
William H. Whyte
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The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.
Terence McKenna
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
William Shakespeare
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The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.
Kevin Macdonald
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We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
Erin Brockovich
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The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.
William O. Douglas
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You should strike at the moon in the water.
Yagyu Munenori
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Into the deep blue, we’ll do this together- water and fire, reach higher. There’s no turning back.
Beatrice Miller
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Drink water, drink tea. I find that if I drink tea I can make myself think that it's something special, because you know how you just really want a glass of wine at the end of the day? So sometimes I can really want a glass of wine but talk myself into believing that tea is as nice, and that's one thing to do to be nice to your skin. Actually, two things: you're not have the wine and you're drinking water. Also just working out. All the things you do to be healthy in your life help your skin.
Jennifer Garner
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Stephen Covey
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'I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.'
Janeane Garofalo
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The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.
Carolyn Murphy
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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
Dan Barker
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Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.
Andrew Revkin
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If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
Peter T. King
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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John Gardner