#wate

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#books #dogs #drink #even #germany

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#cook #covered #fat #into #less

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#always #color #flower #god #love

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

#crowded #decorum #either #existence #filled

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was. ↗

— William Scranton

#considered #core #i #i am #looking

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#board #chess #effect #except #flowing

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beautiful #being #book #gogh #i

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#does #heavens #joins #miracles #only

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#ducks #far #final #i #mentioning