Alan Watts Quotes, Water Quotes, Mind 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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I talked about the human suffering in Iraq. And I also saw the need to advance a freedom agenda. Imagine a world in which Saddam Hussein was there, stirring up even more trouble in a part of the world that had so much resentment and so much hatred that people came and killed 3,000 of our citizens. I've heard this theory about everything was just fine until we arrived and the stir-up-the-hornet's- nest theory. It just doesn't hold water, as far as I'm concerned. The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Water Quotes , People Quotes

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Water Quotes , Doe Quotes

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Water Quotes

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Water Quotes , Democracy Quotes

Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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

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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Water Quotes

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Iron Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Play Quotes , Water Quotes

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Water Quotes , Trying Quotes

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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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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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Water Quotes

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Years Quotes , Water Quotes

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

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I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

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Tags : A. J. Jacobs Quotes , Water Quotes , Thank God 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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Dwelling Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Spring Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes