#water

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. ↗

— Bono

#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#bloom #burst #go #happen #hope

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#also #battles #between #conflict #deeply

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#could #good #guide #help #i

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#cops #exciting #first #first time #hunt

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#altered #changed #color #dreamed #dreams

I drink a gallon of water a day. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#drink #gallon #i #water

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#cup #games #handing #hitting #i

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#always #broken #cannot #does #falsehood

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here. ↗

— John Doerr

#consumers #do the right thing #does #fiji #get