Quotes by Water A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn hurricanes ocean water A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance. Alexander Grothendieck sea water moving Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water Alexander Hamilton hawkers woods water A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things. Alexander MacLaren running water men If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. Alexander MacLaren water death thinking The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water. Alexander Pope convince-us mind water And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. Alexander Pope sound play water My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest. Alexander Smith moon heart water I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today. Alexandra Cousteau storm water believe Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life. Alexandra Cousteau ink writing water Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water. Alexandra Cousteau whales blessing water For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six kilometers, that makes your children sick, that is perhaps the hardest part of your existence. Alexandra Cousteau sick water children The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. Alexandra Ivy ceilings fighting water Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it. Alexandre Dumas truth fire water I really enjoy playing for hours and hours. DJ sets where you turn up over an hour and you're on a festival stage, people basically expect much more pounding than I ever would play. I just feel like a fish out of water when I do those. They want something really kind of aggressive; that's not really the kind of music that I'm into. Alexis Taylor kind water people Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery. Alfred Adler tears water mean The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer Alfred de Musset water blood art No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further. Alfred Doblin peaceful water country Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it. Alfred Jarry cooking food water 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 silence sea water «1234567891011»