Quotes about Like Water

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. Votes: 4

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. Votes: 4

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water. Votes: 3

From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. Votes: 3

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! Votes: 3

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke. Votes: 3

Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) Votes: 3

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light. Votes: 3

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. Votes: 3

It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out. Votes: 3

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view. Votes: 3

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us! Votes: 3

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!" Votes: 3

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. Votes: 3

A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death. Votes: 3

I need music like I need water. Votes: 2

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right? Votes: 2

Water for me is so essential, like swimming. Votes: 2

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing. Votes: 2

I came like Water, and like Wind I go. Votes: 2

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Votes: 2

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Votes: 2

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water. Votes: 2

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. Votes: 2

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. Votes: 2

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water. Votes: 2

The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water. Votes: 2

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds. Votes: 2

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water. Votes: 2

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. Votes: 2

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. Votes: 2

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more. Votes: 2

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water. Votes: 2

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water! Votes: 1

Memories are like water. Votes: 0

Be like water, my friend. Votes: 0

Tagalog sounds like boiling water. Votes: 0

Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink. Votes: 0

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere. Votes: 0

People, like water, seek their own level. Votes: 0

Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. Votes: 0

Children need encouragement like plants need water Votes: 0

The Left needs causes like fish need water Votes: 0

The moon shone like herrings in the water. Votes: 0

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst. Votes: 0

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part. Votes: 0

My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage... Votes: 0

I think water's, like, a really important thing. Votes: 0

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water. Votes: 0

A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water. Votes: 0

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Votes: 0

I came like Water, and like Wind I go. Votes: 0

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water. Votes: 0

Time flows away like the water in the river. Votes: 0

The heart of a man is like deep water Votes: 0

The willow tree plays the water like a harp. Votes: 0

Lying to the Left is like water to fish Votes: 0

Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle. Votes: 0

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates. Votes: 0

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water. Votes: 0

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Votes: 0

We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine. Votes: 0

Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant! Votes: 0

His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. Votes: 0

In water, like in books—you can leave your life. Votes: 0

Life in us is like the water in a river. Votes: 0

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water. Votes: 0

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water. Votes: 0

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters. Votes: 0

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. Votes: 0

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers. Votes: 0

Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea! Votes: 0

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve. Votes: 0

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. Votes: 0

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water. Votes: 0

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Votes: 0

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust. Votes: 0

May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water. Votes: 0

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water. Votes: 0

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix. Votes: 0

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water. Votes: 0

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? Votes: 0

The people are like water and the army is like fish. Votes: 0

Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed. Votes: 0

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. Votes: 0

The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water. Votes: 0

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. Votes: 0

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want Votes: 0

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. Votes: 0

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. Votes: 0

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. Votes: 0

Water is like a child, it always wants to be in motion. Votes: 0

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions. Votes: 0

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. Votes: 0

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate. Votes: 0

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. Votes: 0

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland. Votes: 0

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. Votes: 0

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely Votes: 0

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water Votes: 0

Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it. Votes: 0

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well. Votes: 0

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water. Votes: 0

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition. Votes: 0

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about. Votes: 0

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath. Votes: 0

It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. Votes: 0

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us. Votes: 0

Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck Votes: 0

Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases. Votes: 0

his letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty ... Votes: 0

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. Votes: 0

Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state Votes: 0

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. Votes: 0

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything. Votes: 0

Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! Votes: 0

I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water. Votes: 0

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. Votes: 0

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones. Votes: 0

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet. Votes: 0

It's over me like a ton of water, the things I don't know. Votes: 0

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. Votes: 0

That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning. Votes: 0

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve. Votes: 0

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. Votes: 0

Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back Votes: 0

The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes Votes: 0

The water's always changing, always flowing. But people, I guess, can't live like that Votes: 0

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon. Votes: 0

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water. Votes: 0

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them. Votes: 0

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger. Votes: 0

Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear. Votes: 0

Make your decisions like a rock & live your life like a flow of water Votes: 0

True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl. Votes: 0

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. Votes: 0

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. Votes: 0

Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind. Votes: 0

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing. Votes: 0

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. Votes: 0

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew. Votes: 0

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. Votes: 0

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body. Votes: 0

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim. Votes: 0

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. Votes: 0

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. Votes: 0

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? Votes: 0

no water can be touched like pain of pearl-if you touched one drop of tear Votes: 0

Emotions And Feelings In Life Are Like Water In The Ocean Which Will Never Dry Votes: 0

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. Votes: 0

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. Votes: 0

Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. Votes: 0

Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool. Votes: 0

To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water. Votes: 0

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine. Votes: 0

Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense Votes: 0

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. Votes: 0

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls. Votes: 0

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. Votes: 0

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential. Votes: 0

I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife? Votes: 0

I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain. Votes: 0

They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge. Votes: 0

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. Votes: 0

I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water. Votes: 0

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Votes: 0

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it. Votes: 0

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward. Votes: 0

I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife~? Votes: 0

Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink. Votes: 0

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. Votes: 0

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle. Votes: 0

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died. Votes: 0

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer. Votes: 0

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Votes: 0

My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense. Votes: 0

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Votes: 0

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands. Votes: 0

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space. Votes: 0

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water. Votes: 0

It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water. Votes: 0

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan) Votes: 0

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. Votes: 0

A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water. Votes: 0

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub. Votes: 0

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. Votes: 0

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship. Votes: 0

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. Votes: 0

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life Votes: 0

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. Votes: 0

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. Votes: 0

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch Votes: 0

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight Votes: 0

For me Super Junior like a water, I always need it and it very fresh for me Votes: 0

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water . Votes: 0

To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay. Votes: 0

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! Votes: 0

You just got to out there and flow, like Bruce Lee said, you got to be like water. Votes: 0

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Votes: 0

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. Votes: 0

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. Votes: 0

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. Votes: 0

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. Votes: 0

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. Votes: 0

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. Votes: 0

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey. Votes: 0

Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain Votes: 0

Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it. Votes: 0

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. Votes: 0

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy. Votes: 0

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water. Votes: 0

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. Votes: 0

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water. Votes: 0

Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water. Votes: 0

The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm. Votes: 0

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in. Votes: 0

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain. Votes: 0

Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner. Votes: 0

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick. Votes: 0

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Votes: 0

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Votes: 0

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. Votes: 0

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water. Votes: 0

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Votes: 0

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places. Votes: 0

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Votes: 0

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Votes: 0

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. Votes: 0

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. Votes: 0

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily. Votes: 0

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away. Votes: 0

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water. Votes: 0

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. Votes: 0

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round. Votes: 0

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy. Votes: 0

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion. Votes: 0

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise. Votes: 0

Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it. Votes: 0

The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish. Votes: 0

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. Votes: 0

Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies Votes: 0

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water. Votes: 0

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive. Votes: 0

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. Votes: 0

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. Votes: 0

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water. Votes: 0

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God. Votes: 0

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. Votes: 0

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it Votes: 0

When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day. Votes: 0

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. Votes: 0

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. Votes: 0

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation. Votes: 0

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount. Votes: 0

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water Votes: 0

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way. Votes: 0

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing. Votes: 0

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it. Votes: 0

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water. Votes: 0

They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island. Votes: 0

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity. Votes: 0

He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water. Votes: 0

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction. Votes: 0

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish. Votes: 0

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. Votes: 0

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves. Votes: 0

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. Votes: 0

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna. Votes: 0

Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent. Votes: 0

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water. Votes: 0

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge. Votes: 0

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them. Votes: 0

Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit. Votes: 0

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be? Votes: 0

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight Votes: 0

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax. Votes: 0

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. Votes: 0

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. Votes: 0

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. Votes: 0

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way. Votes: 0

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up. Votes: 0

Your playing is like salt water taffy. You see all the beautiful colors, red, yellow, blue, but they all taste the same. Votes: 0

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have. Votes: 0

I think talent is like a water table under the earth"”you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. Votes: 0

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle. Votes: 0

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way." Votes: 0

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. Votes: 0

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. Votes: 0

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. Votes: 0

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path. Votes: 0

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Votes: 0

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. Votes: 0

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic. Votes: 0

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. Votes: 0

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted. Votes: 0

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Votes: 0

The human heart is like the reflection on the water's surface. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels. Votes: 0

a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is. Votes: 0

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. Votes: 0

I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die. Votes: 0

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. Votes: 0

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. Votes: 0

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Votes: 0

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours. Votes: 0

I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water. Votes: 0

I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym. Votes: 0

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? Votes: 0

Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen. Votes: 0

The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating. Votes: 0

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. Votes: 0

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. Votes: 0

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy. Votes: 0

Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing. Votes: 0

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water. Votes: 0

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest. Votes: 0

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it. Votes: 0

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. Votes: 0

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face. Votes: 0

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! Votes: 0

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water. Votes: 0

The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but it?s still packed tight with it, like water in stone. Votes: 0

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. Votes: 0

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.' Votes: 0

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Votes: 0

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free. Votes: 0

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water Votes: 0

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult. Votes: 0

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased. Votes: 0

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed. Votes: 0

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. Votes: 0

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies. Votes: 0

Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline! Votes: 0

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us. Votes: 0

A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain. Votes: 0

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan. Votes: 0

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else. Votes: 0

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water. Votes: 0

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny. Votes: 0

I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit . Votes: 0

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. Votes: 0

So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet. Votes: 0

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. Votes: 0

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper. Votes: 0

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water. Votes: 0

Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it. Votes: 0

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little. Votes: 0

I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere. Votes: 0

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. Votes: 0

When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun. Votes: 0

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. Votes: 0

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind. Votes: 0

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. Votes: 0

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own. Votes: 0

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me. Votes: 0

When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off. Votes: 0

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away. Votes: 0

Your personal brand should be like water: not only clear, but transparent to the public. People thirst for that, and they will drink you up. Votes: 0

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. Votes: 0

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river. Votes: 0

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin. Votes: 0

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house. Votes: 0

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life. Votes: 0

I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever. Votes: 0

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. Votes: 0

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water. Votes: 0

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. Votes: 0

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours. Votes: 0

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?' Votes: 0

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow. Votes: 0

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. Votes: 0

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. Votes: 0

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water. Votes: 0

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water. Votes: 0

I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes. Votes: 0

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks! Votes: 0

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water. Votes: 0

A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now! Votes: 0

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear. Votes: 0

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me. Votes: 0

Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home. Votes: 0

Then came nightthat was like falling water.At times, for hours,a bird spirit,half buzzard, half swan,just above the rushesfrom which a snow-storm howls. Votes: 0

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life. Votes: 0

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way. Votes: 0

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. Votes: 0

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water. Votes: 0

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water. Votes: 0

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy. Votes: 0

If I'm feeling healthy - like, I've eaten well and have drank a lot of water and have clothes that feel good - I feel good. Votes: 0

Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you and suck you under." Votes: 0

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge? Votes: 0

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. Votes: 0

I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it. Votes: 0

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. Votes: 0

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths. Votes: 0

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity. Votes: 0

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy. Votes: 0

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house. Votes: 0

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. Votes: 0

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost. Votes: 0

To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water. Votes: 0

If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE) Votes: 0

Faith and doubt cannot reside together. An iota of doubt is enough to taint the entire process, it is like a drop of red ink in water. Votes: 0

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. Votes: 0

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books... Votes: 0

I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works. Votes: 0

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf. Votes: 0

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent. Votes: 0

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it. Votes: 0

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water. Votes: 0

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit... Votes: 0

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus. Votes: 0

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face. Votes: 0

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. Votes: 0

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind! Votes: 0

If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather! Votes: 0

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back. Votes: 0

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. Votes: 0

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul. Votes: 0

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Votes: 0

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug. Votes: 0

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth. Votes: 0

Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing. Votes: 0

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. Votes: 0

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify. Votes: 0

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself. Votes: 0

What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us. Votes: 0

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection. Votes: 0

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean. Votes: 0

People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. Votes: 0

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. Votes: 0

You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar. Votes: 0

I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk. Votes: 0

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent. Votes: 0

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water. Votes: 0

Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness. Votes: 0

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more. Votes: 0

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. Votes: 0

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock. Votes: 0

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water. Votes: 0

Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret. Votes: 0

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay. Votes: 0

Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round. Votes: 0

Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism. Votes: 0

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim. Votes: 0

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. Votes: 0

It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain. Votes: 0

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar. Votes: 0

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water. Votes: 0

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. Votes: 0

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. Votes: 0

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind. Votes: 0

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave. Votes: 0

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. Votes: 0

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 mouth and the ocean. Votes: 0

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime. Votes: 0

We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us. Votes: 0

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water Votes: 0

Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over. Votes: 0

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water. Votes: 0

Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues. Votes: 0

Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet. Votes: 0

This is what I like about life at sea. It's one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes. Votes: 0

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Votes: 0

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away. Votes: 0

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 to find a new course. Votes: 0

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way. Votes: 0

Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story. Votes: 0

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real. Votes: 0

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey. Votes: 0

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. Votes: 0

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. Votes: 0

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. Votes: 0

Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they'll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it. Votes: 0

If I wrote the word flower,would it still grow like a flower?If I wrote a poem concerning a river,would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader? Votes: 0

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink. Votes: 0

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind. Votes: 0

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter. Votes: 0

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories. Votes: 0

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 inside my head again, just for that feeling. Votes: 0

Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water. Votes: 0

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed. Votes: 0

Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. Votes: 0

Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn't make a difference. Votes: 0

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water). Votes: 0

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state. Votes: 0

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. Votes: 0

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood. Votes: 0

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way. Votes: 0

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life. Votes: 0

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. Votes: 0

Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it. Votes: -1