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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

Knows Giving Writing Wells Book Play Seems Lost Water Loses Safe Arise Impulse Destructive Ashes Something Better Shameful Keep To Yourself

Author:Annie Dillard

“One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.”

“It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.”

Wells Water Adults Embarrassing Spit

Author:Karen O

“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.”

“Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.”

Wells Courses Water Numbers Growing Up Growing Tree Holes Accurate Rapids Hazards Tees Layout Cedars

Author:Zach Johnson

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water”

People Knows Wells Happens Courses Water Watches Air Okay

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water.”

People Wells Children Would Be Water Subjects Dad Disease Concerned Died Clean My Dad Great People Digging Many Friends Clean Water Ethiopia

Author:Kenna

“On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.”

Wells Mean I Can Found Water Loss Air Accounts Flames Candle Burned Lenses August Vigorous Mercury

Author:J. B. Priestley

“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”

Giving Wells Made Country States Political Water Interesting Flow Well Being Islands Mexico Florida Cuba Most Interesting Gulf Of Mexico

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.”

Ifs Wells Bits Growth Water Economic Bridges Revenue Economic Growth Stimulus Troubled Waters

Author:William J. Clinton

“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.”

Needs Wells Use Able Fall Enjoy Sides Water Common Quality Tree Products Protect Species Woods Common Sense Harvest Water Quality

Author:John Hancock

“If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.”

Ifs Wells Made Spirit Water Hours Vision Wise Reader Blessing Breaths Generous Self Made Martini Indomitable Water Of Life

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.”

“The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.”

Wells Use Black Water White Building Materials Winter Decay Centre Turkeys Convenient Oaks Carving Great Service Moisture Stiffness

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.”

“But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.”

Source: The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Wells Two Country Enough Might Water Millions Willing Giving Up Scientist Down And Clean Lists Mess Thee Canada Lakes Devoted Pledge Fresh Water

Author:Rick Mercer

“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

“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”

“The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.”

Ifs World Needs Wells May Has Beens Happens Suffering Water Cities Environment Plans Wind Environmental Landscape Hostile Emergencies Stewardship Neglected Careless Starks Bruises

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.”

Wells Kind Water Results Car Products Safety West Credit Consumers Meat Regulation Toys Buyers Aspirin Wild West Toasters

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“The further away I am from water, the less well I do!”

Wells Water

Author:John Waters

“Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.”

World Wells Children Home Dream School Water Poverty Knowing Arms Drink Disease Clean Billions Tiny Budgets Decent Healthcare Adequate Fractions Obscene Clean Water Good School

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.”

Wells Hands Water Blood Crime My Friends Catholic Committed Communism Catholicism Communist Indifferent Marxism Mystique Communism And Socialism

Author:Graham Greene

“Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Shows Values Water Can Do Share Conversation Prove Evidence Argument Logic Importance Appeals Logical What If Oxygen Hydrogen Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.”

Ifs Wells Soul Might Water Fire Shapes Blow Your Soul Temper You Choose Hammers Drop Of Water

Author:Margaret Weis

“With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”

Wells Joy Water Draws Salvation

Author:Isaiah

“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”

Needs Wells Water Lord Sun Failing Land Spring Garden Guides

Author:Isaiah

“The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - I

“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.”

People Wells Water

Author:Jessamyn West

“Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.”

Wells Water Tough Swim Swimming Too Deep

Author:Bob Marley

“In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.”

Thinking Wells Country Home School Culture Girl Water Worst Educated Developing Meals Treatment Village Preparing Farming Back And Forth Chores Developing Countries Country Girl

Author:Laura Bush

“Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Mean Water Prayer Fine Holy Harm Touching Dessert Holy Water

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.”

Needs Wells Problem Stars Water Madrid All Stars

Author:Diego Maradona

“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.”

Way Wells Problem Term Water Numbers Half Talking Millions Huge Couple Right Now Crisis Decades Contamination

Author:Josh Fox

“Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just based on who you are. Women are more likely to survive hurricanes. In hurricanes the deaths come from floods and people driving through high water. That's much more likely to be a man who dies that way.”

People Men Way Wells Certain Dies Water Advantage Who You Are Driving Disaster Survivor Flood Be A Man Hurricanes Disadvantages Profile Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Amanda Ripley

“In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.”

Men Wells Soul States Water Grace Tree Flow Rivers Streams Rising Rooted Crystals

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.”

People Ifs World Wells Mean Important Water Poor Clean Developing Being Thankful Clean Water

Author:Avril Lavigne

“A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!”

Men Wells Beautiful Values Water Morning Appreciate Desert Guarantees Afternoon Beautiful Morning

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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