Still Water Quotes: top 84 famous quotes about Still Water

Still Water Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Still Water quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Obscure as muddied water. But, with stillness, muddy waters clear. Can you also act while remaining still? — Lao-Tzu

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow? — Jennifer McMahon

Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain. — Emma Cameron

Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface. — Confucius

Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality. — Jason Goodwin

I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video. — Rick Riordan

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water. — Buzz Aldrin

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. — Rumi

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat. — Kelli Jae Baeli

People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle. — Prince Philip

For most people, blood is still thicker than water, but I guess all bets are off when you put money in the mix. — Lisa Henry

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating. — Janeane Garofalo

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. — John F. Kennedy

So what's your story?" Ryan asks.
Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?"
"Yeah. Everybody has at least one. — David Levithan

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. — Bruce Lee

Calm as still water, — George R R Martin

Fierce as a wolverine, calm as still water. — George R R Martin

She took a sip from her water glass and marveled at how you could sit so close to someone and still have him be totally far away from you. — J.R. Ward

She's still taking on water. A desert blessing, an ocean curse. — John Green

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink. — Robin McKinley

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it. — Sherri Shepherd

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. — Mary Pope Osborne

She was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on. — Sarah Addison Allen

Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death. — Rudyard Kipling

Water drunk more reverently still, from the hands or from the spring itself, diffuses within us the most secret salt of earth and the rain of heaven. — Marguerite Yourcenar

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking. — Elizabeth David

Calm as still water. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. — George R R Martin

She knows swimming still She die in water, This is Woman's life — Smita Ravishankar

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. — Ben Hogan

Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still. — Ming-Dao Deng

Blood is thicker than water, but it can still be contaminated. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. — Simon Van Booy

No doubt, the toilet must have come alive and regurgitated all over the floor and walls. The putrid water is still trickling from the bowl. — Kelby Losack

The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream. — Brownie Wise

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light. — Dogen

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?' — Sam Kinison

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze. — Michael Chabon

With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things — Confucius

And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time. — Ian McEwan

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle. — Lao-Tzu

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things. — Confucius

Still hate the water, bitch?"
"Wh-What? — Elisabeth Naughton

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. — Wendell Berry

I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlfriend when she's in the shower. — Daniel Tosh

When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping? — Anthony Liccione

It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message. — Ernest Hemingway,

The water was still. The mountains moved. — Avijeet Das

A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water. — Julia Peterkin

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb. — Rudyard Kipling

Blood is thicker than water, but they still use corn starch as a thickener on cooking shows — Josh Stern

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions. — Shaun Hick

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. — Donna Jo Napoli

The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream. — Emma Raveling

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

Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone. — George R R Martin

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. — George Herbert

She's still taking on water. A dessert blessing, an ocean curse — John Green

STILL WATER RUNS DEEP — Neil Gaiman

In Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock. — Michael Ondaatje

Men see God in the ripple, but not in miles of still water. Of all the two thousand miles that the St. Lawrence flows, pilgrims go only to Niagara. — Henry David Thoreau

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. — Barten Holyday

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. — George R R Martin

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

But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine, And many a Garden by the Water blows. — Omar Khayyam

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset. — Stephen King

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself. — Laozi

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously. — Perry Brass

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water. — Bill Vaughan

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me. — Amy Hempel

Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us. — Steven Erikson

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. — Frances Sargent Osgood

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face. — Veronica Roth

Tears water our eyes.

"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath. — Kathryn Harrison

He was smooth water - effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn't swim. — Pepper Winters

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water. — Erykah Badu

You are water, whirling water,
Yet still water trapped within,
Come, submerge yourself within us,
We who are the flowing stream. — Rumi

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won't become still water. — Tablo

Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn. — Swami Veda Bharati

No one wants your worries ... not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters. — Max Lucado

I still have things to do. I met up with the stars, but I could not count them. I drew water from the well, but I could not offer it. — Eduardo Galeano

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water. — Simon Munnery

There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon. — Rumi