Quotes with fresh-water

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  • Samuel Johnson Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Honore Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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  • Confucius With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • C. S. Forester With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • John F. Kennedy You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • George Macdonald You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • W. C. Fields You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Cass Elliot You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Bootsy Collins You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Mary Pickford You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
    Mary Pickford
    Canadian film and theater actress and film producer (1892 - 1979)
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  • Billy Tauzin You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Rupert Brooke But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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