Water Quotations | Page 5

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.

I drink a gallon of water a day.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

I don't smoke, drink. I exercise, drink lots of water, eat well, don't sun. Me cuido.There's a lot of things that I want to do.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

The other reason to secure the heater is that you have 55 gallons of fresh water you can drink in the water heater.

The performance of the major stock averages didn't make anyone happy in 2005. But when you consider what the markets had to contend with, treading water is not so bad.

The plotters of yesterday, the plotters of today ... they swim in the water and think we don't see their backs but we see them.

We are providing a cleaner source of water to avoid any health problems, and in the second instance we're providing for the needs of women and children so they have access to water all day.

We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution problems.

We are pleased to celebrate this achievement with the Navajo Nation. We'll continue to work together to protect and restore vital water resources on tribal land.

We started to get sucked under the barge. Luckily, a deck hand cut us loose and we popped out of the water like a cork.

We are a unit that specializes in scent and water search.

We are at sea in a sinking ship, our citizens are treading water to stay afloat, and now New Jersey government wants their life jackets.

We're interested in finding out whether that bright rim material is the same as the outcrop rock or something different. It may have a different water story.

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

We're inferring that there is a liquid water reservoir under the surface and it's erupting in a geyser-like fashion, maybe like the Yellowstone geysers you would see.

We're in a low area, so we had one or two feet of water yesterday. That has drained down now. Obviously, the area is still wet, but it's drying out. We did get some roof damagesome damage to some windows, and tree limbs hitting windows.

We're talking about a little girl who would get a splinter and come crying. My water bill was atrocious. I would do 10 loads of laundry a day!

We started out below sea level but we've got our head above water now. We've made a lot of steady progress. ... Some players who were struggling early are coming around and figuring things out.

We spent most of the night trying to control the water from damaging our room,

We spent millions installing a modern water delivery system, sewage treatment facility and paved roads.

Where the effect comes in droughts is the low water levels coming off the spawn. All the water is pulled off the cover the baby bass are hiding in. They can't hide and this hurts recruitment. But it is something fishermen might not notice for three or four years.