Quotes with sea-water

Quotes 341 till 360 of 367.

  • 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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  • 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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  • John Keats Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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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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  • Sophocles Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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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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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Updike Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bob Dylan Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?
    Source: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Thomas Traherne You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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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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  • Thomas Fuller Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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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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