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“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

Mind Water Leadership Floats Psychoanalysis Alzheimer's Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”

Children Said Play Water White Tree Childhood Fields Clouds Surface Golden Giants Sand Dragons Customs Shore Warning Yellow Floats Dip Daisies Odor Creeks Dandelions Thistles White Clouds

Author:Williston Fish

“One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.”

Ifs Water One Thing Balls Golf I've Learned Floats Things I've Learned Golf Ball

Author:Arnold Palmer

“If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.”

Ifs Way Should Has Beens Water History Should Have East Ships Floats Should Have Been Emperor

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one”

Giving Feels Water Views Sea Position Easier Advantage Rivers Finals Fishes Legs Impression Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rough Realistic Tied Conventional Insects Floats Files Parachutes

Author:Lefty Kreh

“my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).”

I Can States Faces Water Position Bears Floats Vertical Fugue

Book:The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

“Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.”

Ifs Should Trying Persons Interest Water Kindness Issues Air Conditions Bird Luck Fishes Floats Joining Harmonious Unlucky

Author:James Vila Blake

“The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.”

Way Water Fire Air Elements Mass Stones Weight Woods Proportion Bitterness Decay Burned Composition Worms Floats Dense Sap Ignite Moisture

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!”

Ifs Way Want Needs Trying Doe Matter Might Able Science Turns Water Simple Principles Heavy Experiments Bars Glances Compass Floats Absolutely Nothing Sinking Buckets Magnet Hardy Mariners Cork

Author:Dave Barry

“You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.”

Ifs Years Body Seems Law Water Impossible Skills Dancing Your Body Gravity Floats Athletics

Author:Karen Armstrong

“In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.”

Beautiful Water Hell Floats Lilies Crocodiles Water Lily

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan