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Quotes About Reservoir

I think the virus is present all the time, within reservoir species," he told me. "And sometimes there is transmission from reservoir species to other species.
~ David Quammen
A reservoir host is a species that carries the pathogen, harbors it chronically, while suffering little or no illness.
~ David Quammen
A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
So there it is. The welling reservoir of grief, keen and profound beneath the bruise, the proof of her humanity, still intact. She needs to bury it back where it was. She can't indulge it yet.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
~ Harold Hamm
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience
~ Tarthang Tulku
The promise to try is an admission that you've been holding back, that you have a reservoir of extra effort that you can apply.
~ Robert C. Martin
Despite your best efforts and intentions, there's a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia.
~ Don Lee
When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.
~ Deepak Chopra
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
He pinpointed the reservoir from the man's pilot relief tube, already half-full. "Must be a nervous sort of fellow—" He set it to backwash at full power, and checked the audio transmitter. Savage swearing filled the air briefly, overridden by a snarl calling for radio silence. "Now, there is one distracted soldier.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Trapping the river between the canyon's serpentine walls, the dam would create a slackwater reservoir 186 miles in length, the longest in the world, covering Creeping Dune to a depth of 350 feet, reaching up Lake Canyon as far as that dune which itself was once a dam.
~ Russell Martin
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
~ Frank Herbert
Self-control requires mental energy, and each of us has a limited reservoir. When we're tired, these energy reserves run low, and our self-control suffers. This is why, warns a 2015 review from Clemson University, sleep deprivation puts us at greater risk of "succumbing to impulsive desires, poor attentional capacity, and compromised decision making.
~ Arianna Huffington
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
~ Germaine Greer
If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result—either failure or success…. Trust is knowing that there will be a message. When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
~ B. K. S. Iyengar
If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!
~ David Dunn
Author sees the congested idealism of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Were the universe, for example, like a huge impervious reservoir of some simple gas, where nothing rested but nothing changed, where amid all the hurry and bustle of colliding atoms no new thing was ever born, nor any old thing ever perished, we might find in it admirable illustrations of natural law, but no hints, so far as I can see, of purpose or design. Nor is the case really mended if, instead of thus artificially simplifying inanimate nature, we consider it in all its concrete complexity.
~ balfour arthur james iv
Basically poetry is not only something enjoyable, but a reservoir for wisdom, and a mirror that people can look into and see something in their own life.
~ bargen walter iii
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
~ Hillary Clinton
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
~ Yehuda Amichai