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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. — Rabindranath Tagore

How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm — Langston Hughes

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life. — Louise Hay

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea. — Daniel Lanois

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. — Chanakya

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water. — Ving Rhames

Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all. — Virginia Woolf

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. — Paul Eldridge

If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea. — Scott Lynch

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea. — Isak Dinesen

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. — Pat Metheny

Water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us. — Arnold Gingrich

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why. — Ed Zern

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray. — Yvor Winters

My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name. — Patricia MacLachlan

I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me — Kahlil Gibran

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. — Francis Bacon

I know of a cure for everything: salt water ... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. — Karen Blixen

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. — Karl French

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old. — Bill Barich

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children. — Marva Collins

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water. — Christy Hall

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets. — Peter Kreeft

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters. — Amy Jo Martin

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. Cummings

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon. — Johannes Kepler

Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe

Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether. — Laurie Nadel

Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt. — Marguerite Duras

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea. — Yasmin Mogahed

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water. — Augusten Burroughs

I must look for the Lord's reflection in the sea; otherwise all I see is water. — Matt Rogers

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World. — Helge Ingstad

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water. — Rachel Carson

To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. — Ellen Meloy

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea! — Bob Marley

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea ... — Leonardo Da Vinci

I wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me — Helen Dunmore

they ask for water we give them sea
they ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea — M. NourbeSe Philip

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King; — William Shakespeare

My thoughts, my dreams, they had been nothing in comparison. They were a single drop of water, and this, the whole sea. — J.M. Miller

my dear,
we are all made of water.
it's okay to rage. sometimes
it's okay to rest. to recede. — Sanober Khan

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea. — Miguel De Cervantes

Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it. — Pearl Zhu

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the salt sea. — Karen Blixen

Water can be reached straightaway from wave by following the direct path. If the way through the sea is taken, much more time is needed — Anonymous

Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water. — Anita Diamant

My God, my God
May there be no end
To the sea, to the sand,
The splash of the water,
The glow of the sky,
The prayer of man — Hannah Senesh

I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It's a sea of death," Universo said. "But the water remembers what civilization tries to forget. — Patricia Engel

The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything ... in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea. — Arthur Gordon

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. — William Shakespeare

A story then...is water trying to get back to sea level — Henry Kitchell Webster

Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea. — Neal Stephenson

Tidal waves surge forward,
And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.
(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER) — Wendy Shreve

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. — Thomas Browne

I could still see the smoke stack. That's where the water would be, healing out to the sea and the peaceful grottoes. — William Faulkner

A lie, that we come from water.
The truth is we were born
from stones, dragons, the sea's
teeth, — Margaret Atwood

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite. — Shelley Noble

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous — Arthur Schopenhauer

The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water. — Langston Hughes

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water? — Virginia Woolf

With just a little drop of kindness you can water a whole garden. — Heather Wolf

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home. — James Kidd

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. — Herman Melville

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. — Miyamoto Musashi

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. — Kahlil Gibran

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. — Herman Melville

By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down to the sea somehow — Jackson Browne

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. — Rachel Carson

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. — Dante Alighieri

The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ... — Muse

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. — Sigrid Agren

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano

The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst. — Ibn Arabi

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. — John Gierach

And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake! — Nina George

Sleeping Atlantis

Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within... — Muse

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. — Pablo Neruda

Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one. — Douglas Preston

The pulse of lapping water; slow waves invisible in the dark; two entangled minds; two lives; two beating hearts. — D.J. MacLennan

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. — Holly Black

Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon's Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn't care. — Rick Riordan

To Be Filled With The Knowledge Of God's Glory Is To Be As The Water Cover The Sea — Sunday Adelaja

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be? — Emily Dickinson