Charles Dickens Quotes, Water Quotes, Listening Quotes

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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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

I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , People 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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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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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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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.

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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

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

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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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

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

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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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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

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

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

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

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