#wate

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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

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.


Ric Keller


#him #lead #make #think #water

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.


Henri Frederic Amiel


#affirming #draw #examine #into #look

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.


Stan Laurel


#lead #led #must #pencil #water

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

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.


Maxine Waters


#doors #down #easy #i #just

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.


Chuck Colson


#cannot #ends #i #illegal #important