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  • The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Hands Quotes , Water Quotes
  • There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Water Quotes , Doe Quotes
  • Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes
  • I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Depression Quotes , Water Quotes
  • To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes