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Water Quotes by Sun Tzu
- When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is…
- If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.
- An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength…
- So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the…
- As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions.
- As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.
- The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand…
- Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.
- Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according…
- So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the…
More Water Quotes
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams