Quotes with sea-water

Quotes 301 till 320 of 367.

  • Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Trades unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Source: Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Derek Jarman Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • W. Secker Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
    W. Secker
     
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  • Billy Tauzin Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • B. B. King Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Joan Didion Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
    Source: Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Audrey Hepburn Water is life, and clean water means health.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Water is the only drink for a wise man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Napoleon Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Mark Twain Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • F. Coleridge Water, water, everywhere,
    Nor any drop to drink.
    F. Coleridge
     
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  • Douglas Adams We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
    Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (2005)
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • H. Gilbert We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
    H. Gilbert
     
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