F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Years Quotes, Water Quotes

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

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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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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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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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

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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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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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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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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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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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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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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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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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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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