Adrian Tomine Quotes, Teenager Quotes, Water Quotes

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

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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

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Being Alone Quotes , Water Quotes

The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Water Quotes , Small Pleasures Quotes

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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

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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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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

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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"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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Order Quotes , Water 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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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

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

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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fall Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes