#water

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. ↗

— James Buchan

#almost #call #century #commodity #existence

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#bottom #distributes #down #entire #evenly

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right. ↗

— Brian Clough

#drinks #i #instead #know #more

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#beside #bottle #charge #dollars #five

Water is the driving force of all nature. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#driving force #force #nature #water

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#being #blown #could #every #family

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#land #legacy #our #planet #water

I come like Water, and like Wind I go. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#go #i #like #water #wind

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#allow #america #arrogant #dictate #election