Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing 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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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

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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

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

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We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Water Quotes , World Quotes

Dripping water hollows out a stone

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Water Quotes , Lady Macbeth 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.

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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Water 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

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

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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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But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

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The soul is swayed by the waters.

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Water Quotes , Reason 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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