Laozi Quotes, Water Quotes, Return Quotes

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

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Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

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While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

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Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Flower Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Powerful 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

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Water Quotes

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Ions 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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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Water Quotes , Enemy 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

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing 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

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes