Virginia Woolf Quotes, Water Quotes, Half 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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The soul is swayed by the waters.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Water Quotes

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Land Quotes , Water Quotes

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Mean Quotes , Water Quotes

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Garden Quotes , Water Quotes

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Water Quotes , Way To Live 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

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Of War Quotes , Water Quotes

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Water Quotes , Stones Quotes

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Hands Quotes , Water Quotes

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Food Quotes , Water Quotes

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Water Quotes

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wind Quotes , Water Quotes

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Love Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Water Quotes

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.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Hands Quotes , Water Quotes

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Believe Quotes , Water Quotes

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Iron Quotes , Water Quotes