W Quotes
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“Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.”
Source: The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes
“Water inflated the belly
Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
Coleridge was a dope.
Southwell died on a rope.”
Source: The Middle of a War
“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”
“Water is a desert's gold.”
“Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.”
“Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.”
“Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is this planet's life - blood, which we are destroying. I always look for it in a poem. I honor it. I pay it mind.”
“Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.”
“Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.”
“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.”
“Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.”
“Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.”
“Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.”
“Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.”
“Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.”
“Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.”
“Water is bothersome in the boot, let alone in the stomach!”
Source: Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch
“Water is comprised of life.”
“Water is Consciousness of giving, healing. Like most things, when there is corruption or dishonouring or disrespect of any part of the Consciousness, water can turn or stop.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“Water is essential to life! It's also great for keeping your skin looking good and healthy, which is an added bonus.”
“Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.”
“Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.”
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
“Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?”
“Water is God's tranquilizer.”
Source: D.V.
“Water is greater than rain.
Air is mightier than wind.
Heat is tougher than fire.
Light is stronger than sunshine.”
“Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water, and nobody knows what it is.” —D. H. Lawrence, Pansies”
Source: Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence
“Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Water is healing. It is one of the main elements of life. We are more than 70% water, so we respond to it readily. It doesn’t just clean our bodies. That’s the least of it. It cleans our etheric body. That’s why almost everyone feels better after a long shower.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”
“Water is life is love is life is water.”
“Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
“Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and drink from these waters. We are related to those who live in the water. To poison the waters is to show disrespect for creation. To honor and protect the waters is our responsibility as people of the land.”
Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings
“Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.”
“Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.”
“Water is never truly neutral — it is shaped by geology, pressure, and time.”
“Water is not just something we consume.
It is something that quietly shapes who we become.”
Source: The Silent Element: On the Intelligence Hidden in Water
“Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.”
“Water is one of the least understood aspects of biology.”
“Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!”
“Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.”
“Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.”
“Water is our next great environmental challenge. It is the new oil. How are we going to preserve this sport unless we are designing and maintaining golf courses that are energy net zero, carbon net zero and water net zero? Or ideally, energy positive, carbon positive and water positive, where they are taking out more than they are using.”
“Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone.”
“Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the
water, I am safe and pulled in where I
can’t get out. Everything slows down—
the noise and the racing of my thoughts.”
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
“Water is pristine (I cry),
when transparent it remains,
clean it falls right off the sky,
soft or heavy (with my pain).
Soft it falls,
when the drops are small,
heavy fall the larger balls -
numerous the drops that fall…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.”