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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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Water Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fall Quotes , Water Quotes

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing 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.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Depression Quotes , Water Quotes

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Water Quotes

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Running Quotes , Water Quotes

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Spring Quotes , Water Quotes

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Water Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Practice Quotes , Water Quotes

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Save Me Quotes

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Water Quotes , Taoism Quotes

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Water Quotes , Confusion Quotes