Sun Tzu Quotes, Military Quotes, Water Quotes

So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

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The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Water Quotes , Listening Quotes

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Air Quotes , Water Quotes

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

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.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Years Quotes , Water Quotes

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Water Quotes , Thrones Quotes

A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Jamaica Quotes , Water Quotes

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.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Light Quotes , Water Quotes

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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Tags : Al Alvarez Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Half Quotes

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Water Quotes

Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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