#water

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dislike #does #enlightened #into #man

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. ↗

— Charles Olson

#count #drop #faucet #i #leak

Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.' ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#beautiful #big #clear #couple #day

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. ↗

— George Orwell

#battles #been #lost #opening #probably

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. ↗

— William Osler

#common #common sense #sense #soap #water

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#course #difficult #greece #know #new

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

#direction #four #given #had #hand

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#children #couple #everyone #food #having

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. ↗

— Mike Pence

#big #big government #captain #conservative #conservative movement

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#capability #much #nothing #over #over it