#water

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#between #canals #channeled #deal #drown

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one. ↗

— Jeremy Sumpter

#drinks #eats #either #front #jury

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal. ↗

— John Dean

#bill #goldwater #liberal #like #look

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#clock #conservative #goldwater #i #income

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#clean #communities #country #dakota #drinking

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#dirty #i #me #say #scotch

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#letter #resistance #river #water #experience

to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem #poetry #life

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#ocean #sea #water #music

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#water #change