Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Water Quotes, Imagination Quotes

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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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

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Love Quotes , Water Quotes

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Water Quotes

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Water Quotes , Turns 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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Ingredients Quotes

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Garden Quotes , Water Quotes

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Swimming Quotes , Water Quotes

A little water clears us of this deed.

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

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dedication Quotes , Water Quotes

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

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Tags : Alan Coren Quotes , Water Quotes , Age Quotes

By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Practice Quotes , Water Quotes

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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

To fish in troubled waters.

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Fishing Quotes , Water Quotes

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Light Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Land Quotes , Water Quotes

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

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Water Quotes , Doe Quotes

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Mother Quotes , Water Quotes