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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
— Water
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.
The challenge of securing safe and plentiful water for all is one of the most daunting challenges faced by the world today. . . . Too often, where we need water we find guns.
Perfect water - the dark wind braids the waves. This is perfect water, passing over me.
Rahula, develop meditation that is like water. ... Just as people wash clean things and dirty things, excrement, urine, spittle, pus, and blood in water, and the water is not horrified, humiliated, and disgusted because of that, so too, Rahula, develop meditation that is like water.
Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruell maister.
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities. If they are not there, science cannot create them. If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
Till taught by pain,You'd wish yourself where Truth is—in a well.
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. (I)
[Water] is one of the most investigated of all chemicals, but it is still the least understood ... nothing is as complex in its behaviour.
H20 should be a gas, .\xa0.\xa0. but it is a liquid. Moreover, when it freezes .\xa0.\xa0.\xa0, its solid form, ice, floats instead of sinking.
The fountain's low singing is heard on the wind,Yet that fountain's low singing is heard over all.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
The water of Zamzam is a cure for whatever (ailment) it is taken for.
Honest water, which ne'er left man in the mire.
More water glideth by the millThan wots the miller of.
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.
He said to me: “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her devastated and naked, and they will eat up her flesh and completely burn her with fire.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
For waters will burst forth in the wilderness,There will be green grass and reeds and papyrus.
Counsel in the heart of a man is as deep waters, but the man of discernment is one that will draw it up.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
The noise of many waters.
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
Still waters run no mills.
Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring,Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.
Pouring oil on troubled water.
A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.
The world turns softlyAnd can hold the sky?
Water its living strength first shows,When obstacles its course oppose.
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
Water is the mother of the vine,The adorner and refresher of the world.
I'm very fond of water: When qualified aright.
A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
'Tis rushing now adown the spout, To cool the thirsty tree.
And so never ending,But always descending.
How does the WaterCome down at Lodore?
'Tis a little thingRenews the life of joy in happiest hours.
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.
