Best Like Water Quotations
201 Like Water quotes by 164 unique authors
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying…
— William Hazlitt
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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
— Anne Lamott
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest…
— Marc Bekoff
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us…
— Arthur Golden
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
— Philip Yancey
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I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.
— Augusten Burroughs
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I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
— Bruce Lee
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
— Janet Fitch
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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
— Wallace Stevens
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Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it…
— Robert Hass
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Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
— David Foster Wallace
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Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea,…
— Sharon Shinn
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If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
— Bruce Lee
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that…
— Sylvia Plath
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Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
— Katherine Paterson
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Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique…
— Karen Chance
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Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
— Gabrielle Zevin
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the…
— Alan Watts
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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying…
— Colum McCann
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