Quotes About Water

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult. In

As all things can be reflected in water, so the whole universe is mirrored in the lake of the Cosmic Mind.

Mi maestro siempre me pedía que meditara dondequiera que viese una extensión de agua. Aquí, su placidez nos recuerda la inmensa serenidad de Dios. Así como todas las cosas pueden reflejarse en el agua, así todo el universo se refleja en el lago de la Mente Cósmica

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

The two fountains spoke to each other in the pretty speech of falling water . . . .

In twenty feet of water, . . . the four of us watched the moonlight play on the surface of the water. It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass.

Few things rivet me like the beauty of moving water.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.

As she moved swiftly and noiselessly through the vast palace cellar, odd noises weltered toward her. Voices and echoes of water rippled through the air as if, in some magic chamber, whales and dolphins cavorted among young maidens in great tanks of water. When she reached it, all the fish turned into laundry, stirred and beaten in steaming cauldrons by glum, limp-haired women as wet as mackerels.

Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water.

But I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me, just as I am interested in what electricity and good food and water do for me.

living water," the Spirit of God Himself, that will keep them from ever again being thirsty—being driven and ruled by unsatisfied desires

Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

How is it that you—a highly educated woman of science—don't see? Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

El aire de los museos era el mismo en todas partes: una atmósfera meticulosamente filtrada para eliminar todas las partículas y oxidantes y luego humectada con agua ionizada hasta alcanzar el 45% de humedad.

On the Newton Scale, the temperature of boiling water is thirty-three degrees.

like corks. To Langdon's surprise, dozens of gondolas were making this same crossing. Their slender hulls—at nearly forty feet in length and almost fourteen hundred pounds—appeared remarkably stable in the rough waters. Each vessel was piloted by a sure-footed gondolier

Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation.

Sull'acqua, sotto il mare, in alto nel bosco sarai. Fidati del tuo istinto, nel mare; riporta a me il tuo tesoro. Se lo troverai, come dovresti, viaggerai, giorno e notte. Appena lo vedrai, lo saprai, come sopra così sotto. Quando lo avrai afferrato, sarai pronto ad attraversare il mare.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

At sunrise of the third day, I saw the corpse's chest begin to rise and fall and I heard the first intake of breath—a rasp like water being poured into a leather pouch.

Johnny-boy shook his head. Maybe he thought I wanted him to drink from the bottle. Hell, I have more class than that. There are paper cups over by the water cooler.

I mean that in a consumer society, the family is the means by which most people become tied to a cycle like this: go along with things, so long as you get enough to buy more and more things even though the whole world is exploited so that a relatively small number of people in this country - US! - can live well. (Our own land and air and water are also plundered in the interests of blind consumerism.)