#waters

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#old-men #waters #beauty

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#crooked #different #god #having #lead

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ↗

— Lucretius

#any #because #delectable #free #gaze

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. ↗

— Lucretius

#gaze #high #high seas #land #lashing

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#away #children #different #different person #driving

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ↗

— Henry Miller

#does #good #gratuitous #letter #like

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ↗

— John Moody

#barely #began #construction #emerged #first

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

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. ↗

— Tom Petty

#any #blues #come #covering #find

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically