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But the grass ain't always greener on the other side,
It's green where you water it — Justin Bieber

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

Men can dig wells, but they can't create water. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal. It strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. — Aleatha Romig

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals. — David Suzuki

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear. — Edith Head

Getting something done is like digging a well. You can dig a well seventy feet deep, but if you don't hit water it's just an abandoned well. — Mencius

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests. — Wangari Maathai

It's not that gray water's boring, but the subject does have its limits. — Sue Grafton

Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine. — E. E. Cummings

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway. — Tom Dreesen

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart. — Shozo Tanaka

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas. — Ryan Lilly

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. — Queen Victoria

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth. — John Marsden

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. — W.C. Fields

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water. — Michael Ondaatje

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. — Pindar

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand. — The Silver Elves

PROBLEMS are like cold or hot water, how much you pack it tightly but its moisture comes outside — Samar Sudha

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. — John C. Reilly

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move. — Paulo Coelho

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda ... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda. — Yoweri Museveni

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

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold. — Michael Lee West

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

God made only water, but man made wine. — Victor Hugo

Elaine's lows were low, but her highs were...well her highs were magic that transformed mere earth, air, and water into the breath of life. — Mark Adam Kaplan

Blood is thicker than water, but water is easier to swallow. — P.L. Byrd

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

The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop. — Gertrude Ederle

The Society slides in everywhere, snakes in a crack, water dripping against a rock until even the stone has no choice but to hollow and change shape. — Ally Condie

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it. — S.A. Tawks

Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest. — Jetta Carleton

I glared daggers at him, but they just bounced off him like water on a freshly waxed car. — H.P. Mallory

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

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. — Warren Buffett

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

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. — John Bunyan

People spend their entire lives moving back and forth over the same water, moving but staying. — Erika Swyler

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! — Pauline Phillips

Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks. — Dean Koontz

When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy. — Xavier Becerra

My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving. — Nicola Peltz

Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate? — Glen David Gold

Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

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

I've always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can't live for a second without hope. — Brendan Rodgers

I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done. — Devon Werkheiser

Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. — Bryant McGill

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Thomas L. Masson

I'm dying of thirst but lack the strength to even drink water anymore. — Haruki Murakami

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water! — Kabir

To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the land. — Sam Torode

I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works. — Rachelle Lefevre

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. — Augusto De Luca

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne! — Adolf Hitler

Vodka is like water, but with consequences. — Tom Rachman

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. — Gene Hackman

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

What is a mirror but water that refuses to budge? — Conchitina Cruz

Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears — Dora Okeyo

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine. — John Berridge

I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice. — Robert A. Heinlein

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. — Stan Laurel

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot. — Takuan Soho

And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing. — Jackie Kessler

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. — Marshall McLuhan

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him. — Ramakrishna

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

But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.'
'Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee. — Zora Neale Hurston

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water. — Janine Benyus

God performs miracles, but even for one to walk on water, action is required. — Matshona Dhliwayo

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books ... — Xinran

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
Of water, the new-kindled flame expires. — Ovid

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

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy. — Toba Beta

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good. — Howard Stern

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. — Benjamin Franklin

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow. — Peter Kreeft

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. — Manoj Arora

I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk. — Mark Hoppus

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. — Hal Lindsey

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

Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat. — Walter Mosley

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. — Frank Langella

The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious. — Rebecca Solnit

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. — Pearl S. Buck

Words are good servants but bad masters. — Aldous Huxley

Let's all try to conserve water. But it's OK to shower. — Allen Evangelista

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

It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare. — Rudyard Kipling

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both. — Manoj Bhargava