“Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.” WaterLeaderGasCarrieRight TimeBuckets Author:Orrin Woodward
“Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.” HappinessWaterGoldCarrieUnhappinessBucketsTinHammered Author:Austin O'Malley
“The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.” WaterColdMoonCarefulShouldersGrassMaskCarriePregnantBedroomWombHandfulPregnant WomenCold WaterMeningitis Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.” MayLittlesWaterFateCurrentsCarrieSwimStraws Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.” CountryWaterFlowBoatPeacefulCarrieLife DeathArches Author:Alfred Doblin
“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.” PeopleKnowsYearsUseNationsWaterCitiesMillionsTechnologyOur LivesEconomicDangerIndustryDrinkWasteRiversMachinesTownsEnvironmentalSmokeSettlingStreamsCarrieFactoriesPollutionCarbonConvenienceMotorUnfoldingShroudsGrime Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.” PeopleRunningJobsWaterLeadershipLeaderCarrieGreat LeadershipAdministrators Author:Robert Townsend
“And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.” LiteratureWaterLandSummerCarrieRunnersHandfulWanderersLand And WaterRunner Up Author:Virgil
“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.” IfsLanguageGivenWaterSimpleSecretClearMysteriousCarrieThirstBucketsGallons Author:Jane Hirshfield