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“When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!”

People Long Speak Water Refuse Speaks Out Stagnant

Author:August Strindberg

“The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.”

Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Matter Earth Together Speak Water Inspired Stuck Strings Composer Composition Paragraph Flour Tchaikovsky

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.”

Men World May Play Eye Names Speak Water Walks Forever Flow Baseball Praise Raises Fellows Blind Old Man Thirst Fellow Man Captives

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way”

People Thinking Way Speak Water Sweet Flower Rivers Roots Milky Way Daffodil Flowing River

Book:The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”

Mind Said Ends Earth Speak Grows Causes Water Fire Air Grew Equal And Love Height Length One Time Strife Boundless Breadth Declaring Another Time

Author:Empedocles

“While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.”

Wells Persons Speak Water Dying Access Meaningful Genuine Lasting Thirst Transient Ephemeral Pragmatism Genuine Happiness Access To Water

Author:Dalai Lama

“Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?”

Ifs Left Speak Water Morning Mankind Dawn Sunrise Fountain Prospects Left Out

Book:Tablets

Source: Tablets

“In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.”

Art Able Moving Speak Stars Water Walks Angel Forgotten

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”

Art Stills Soul America Speak Water Travel Sitting Tongue Kingdoms Painter Dust Ruins Recalls Sculpture Pilgrim Shrines Sandals

Book:Sacred Poems

Source: Sacred Poems

“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

“I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Wanted Remember Speak Stuff Water Interesting Stupid Jokes Yeah Made It One Time Mainstream

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.”

Knows Mean Soul Self Dream Might Speak Water Known Identity Bases Explanation Streams Canada Collectives Self Identity Thunderstorm Snowball

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”

Poetry Literature Speak Water Poet Mark Socialism Socialist Auden Kipling

Author:George Orwell

“Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.”

Speak Water Practice Audience Remove Swimming Facility

Book:The Art of Public Speaking

Source: The Art of Public Speaking

“I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.”

Wells I Can Speak Water Can Do Mouths Tongue Sentiments

Book:Dust tracks on a road

Source: Dust tracks on a road

“The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.”

Men Speak Enjoy Sound Water Animal Example Bears Rivers Sight Environmental Including Fishes Symbols Dependent Units Insects Ecological Deer Otters Elk

Author:William O. Douglas

“Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.”

Should Eye Speak Water Lord Tears Drink Gentleman Knights

Book:The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index

Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index

“We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.”

Thinking World War Country Fighting Courses Speak Nations Water Resources

Author:Tavis Smiley

“Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.”

Earth Speak Heaven Water Sin Blood Elements Murder

Book:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”

Ifs Writing Speak Water Criticism Critics Ill Edges Sand Gossip

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02