W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.”
“Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.”
Source: How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
“Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.”
Source: Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit
“Water must flow, or it turns foul.
A man must think, or his mind grows foul.”
“Water never stops and says, 'Here I am. This is me.' It is forever in motion and twisting and turning into new forms every moment.”
Source: 666: Connection with Crowley
“Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.”
“water pacifies the mind, the spirit, and the body...it soothes us, cleans us, refreshes us...we need it to survive, and there is something so calming and beautiful in the entrancing dance of water as it falls down a cascade, it is pure falling peace for our soul”
“Water problems in the western United States, when viewed from afar, can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: all we need to do is turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers.”
Source: Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
“Water pump, water pump, I've got some good news for you."
"What's your good nes, Dirmit girl?"
"There's a teacher in the village."
"He's here for you, then."
"Guess what he said to me."
"What did he say, what did he say?"
"He said I didn't look like a peasant."
"Were you pleased?"
"I was pleased.”
Source: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm
“Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water, the glorious water everywhere, has taught me that we are more than what we reflect or love. This is the work of compassion: to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
“Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God.”
“Water reveals the sounds of the Otherworlds, to those who know how to listen.”
Source: Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever
“Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.”
Source: Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly
“Water runs down hill concisely. There is no quibbling about it. It does not have to run up hill in order to be entertaining. Man has always followed its course with fascination. The soul of man may reveal its mysteries through direct expression, simple speech, simple gesture, simple painting, just as the soul of the brook is expressed in full simplicity and economy.”
“Water says to the dirty, „Come here“
The dirty one says, „I am so ashamed“.
Water says,
„How will your shame be washed away without me?“
Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1366-67”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.”
Source: All Rivers Flow to the Sea
“Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.”
Source: The Art of War
“Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil - Qui pourtant l’assèche.)”
“Water suddenly remembered their prior visit and questioned, “What was I saying when you left so abruptly? Oh yes, I was telling you that I was alive and sentient. I was going to explain to you that everything is alive. Everything is connected: you, me, the trees, the plants, the soil, and the rocks. Everything! Do you know how much of you is made up of me?”
Source: Joey and His Friend Water
“Water surging bestowing life on us entered the city and left by tearing gardens of life, even one who looked like human in meetings outside, sold a no-man inside the city and dissolved into that act.”
“Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.”
“Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.”
“water talk
you are water
I’m water
we’re all water in different containers
that’s why it’s so easy to meet
someday we’ll evaporate together.
but even after the water's gone
we'll probably point out to the containers
and say, "that's me there, that one"
we're container minders”
“Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.”
“Water the root to enjoy the fruit.”
“Water the seed of your broken heart with tears. Someday, it will open into a flower.”
“Water trotted is as good as oates.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.”
“Water,
Walking,
Walking on water.
Walking,
Walking on for years and years and years.
Taking it into my head,
Living by the right lines,
Reading what the very man said.
Water,
I'm walking,
Walking on water,
Walking,
Walking on.
Lying on eleven years,
Taking it into my head,
Mary, Mary drop me softly.
Been reading what your very man said;
Lying on eleven years
Taking it into my head.
Leave my clothes on the beach;
I'm walking down into the sea.
Prove it to me.”
“Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.”
Source: The Last Savanna
“Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“Water was quiet for a bit before it said, “I want to tell you about you and me and how we are connected. I’m part of you and you are part of me. I am part of the trees, the plants, and the rocks. I am part of everything!”
Source: Joey and His Friend Water
“Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.”
“Water, which in itself is silent, is just waiting to make a noise. In itself completely motionless, it is just waiting to move. Perfectly cold and harsh in itself, it nonetheless has the tepidness of salt and the mineral softness of fabric. Total abhorrence of dominant ideologies. And anti-gulagism is the dominant ideology today. The anti-gulag priests are every bit as bad as the gulag torturers. The sheep have taken over from the beasts of the Apocalypse.”
Source: Cool memories
“Water will always flow with the current.”
“Water will be more important than oil this century”
“Water will drive human migrations during climate change.”
“Water will flow, let it.”
Source: Finish the Sentence: Unscripted Lives: Lessons from Women Around the World
“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”
Source: British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
“Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.”
“Water would fuck up a phone-person. A celestial being wouldn’t personify an inanimate, man-made object; that’s just stupid. They could only take the form of an idea.”
Source: In Limbo
“Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish.”
“Water your plants and your job is done for today.”
“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.”
“Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
[Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]”
“Water, like many other resources is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.”
“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.”
“Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.”