Quotes with water-drinkers

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  • Bhagavad Gita Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Rush Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting
    Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft,
    Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets,
    Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.
    Source: Crimean Sonnets
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  • Anne Frank Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Bill Rodgers My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Bella Thorne My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Horace No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lao-Tzu Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Kingsley Amis Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
    Source: Memoirs (1991)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
    Source:  1992
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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