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Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does. — Stephen Kinzer

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

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean? — Neko Case

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. — Rumi

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water. — Ed Begley Jr.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty. — Shunryu Suzuki

As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice. — Markus Zusak

I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink. — Hillary Clinton

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search. — Confucius

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

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare

We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I — Janet Fitch

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. — Charles Lamb

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water. — Austin O'Malley

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo Da Vinci

God brought us to the water," [Emery] breathed as she struggled.
"No, I took us to the water. — Shandy L. Kurth

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. — Herman Melville

Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind. — Rachel Dratch

pushed the little girl aside as he wedged his way to the water fountain. The kid turned around to find Mr. Jackson staring down at him. "I've — Marnie Wooding

Calm as still water, — George R R Martin

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. — Marianne Moore

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy. — Eric Andre

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness. — Mencius

The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood. — Ayn Rand

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. — Sun Tzu

I'm not used to people saying exactly what they think. Filtered talk is as popular as filtered water these days. — Willow Aster

As a group, we've been banned from two water parks, one bar, and a dog-grooming salon. — J.A. Rock

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. — Steven Pinker

Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air — Ian McEwan

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms. — Michael Scott

Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time. — N.J. Berrill

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. — Thiruvalluvar

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

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. — Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow

If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely. — Dennis Sharpe

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy

I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. — Gore Vidal

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One — Catherine Stine

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. — Joe Abercrombie

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water. — Chris Kuzneski

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. — Thiruvalluvar

I don't get philosophical. Love fish. Love sharks. Keep the water and their habitats as clean and protected as possible — Eugenie Clark

There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As — Wilbur Smith

Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider. — Lord Byron

We need movement, activity, as much as air and water. — Marty Rubin

Poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something. — Julian Barnes

May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. — Zen

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

Because he is looking at me the way a man dying of thirst might look at a cask of water, as if his very life depends on bringing me to his lips. — Sherry D. Ficklin

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side. — Charles Francis Richter

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both. — Margaret Atwood

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. — James F. Cooper

Everybody is as unstable as water. — Joseph Heller

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace

If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out. — Jim Gaffigan

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water. — Jeffrey Rasley

Blood is thicker than water, as people say. (But then again so is ketchup.) — Alex Shearer

We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan."
"And as able to make something strong between us. — Nora Roberts

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul. — Maximillian Degenerez

I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. — Anthony Lawlor

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. — Elizabeth Berkley

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls. — Fennel Hudson

They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I — Joe Abercrombie

taking the killers, always two at night because she says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She — Emma Donoghue

Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions. — Imagawa Sadayo

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water. — Lyonel Feininger

Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness. — David Wolfe

As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions. — Sun Tzu

His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down. — Tahereh Mafi

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian. — Athenaeus

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. — Esther Williams

He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself. The water sloshed in the font. — Terry Pratchett

She dances in the water. Perhaps that was as good as life got, after all. — Nick Harkaway

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince. — Duane Allman

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way — Bertrand Russell

Our bedraggled heads peeped from the water like bobbing apples just waiting to be eaten, as Magwart prowled the shore. — S.L. Mills

As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water. — Katherine McIntyre

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold — Dogen

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears ... — Nancy Holder

In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water. — Robert Fludd

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. — Gunnar Myrdal

Blood is thicker than water,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies. — Ernest Hemingway,

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama

As water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads. — John Trapp

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. — Jean-Paul Aron

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay. — Rob Walton

The important thing was that he was there, as much a part of the rock, the water, the beach, the house, as they had come to be part of him. — Avi

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

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water. — Bob Goff

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

We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart. — J.R.R. Tolkien

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. — Thomas McGuane

As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel. — Em Bailey