Quotes with water-covered

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  • Benazir Bhutto I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Emily Brontë I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Victor Hugo I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Iain Banks I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I want to raise every voice
    At least I got to try
    Every time I think about it
    Water rises to my eyes
    Situation desperate
    Echoes of the victims cry
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    Some son of a bitch would die
    Stealing Fire (1984) If I Had a Rocket Launcher, Track 8
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Fialho I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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  • Groucho Marx Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Doris Lessing If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Zhuang Zhou If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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  • Bernie Sanders If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • H. Ross Perot If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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