Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water
Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water.
If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.
He says, he loves my daughter; I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon Upon the water, as he'll stand and read, As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, I think, there is not half a kiss to choose, Who loves another best.
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.
I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel. "She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with. " "So of course you immediately came down.
. . . photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.
Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.
I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.