Calm Water Quotes

• Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

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  Zora Neale Hurston

  Home   Journey   Ice Water  

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• In calm water every ship has a good captain.

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  Grover Cleveland

  Water   Captains   Ships  

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• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

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  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Water   Storm   Too Late  

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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  Jane Austen

  Strength   Hate   Women  

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• If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.

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  Rumi

  Stars   Water   Looks  

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• Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

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  Margaret of Valois

  Water   Heaven   Spirit  

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• It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.

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  Olivier Clement

  Spiritual   Heart   Lakes  

  502

• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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  Jane Austen

  Women   Equality   Water  

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

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  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sunset   Fire   Sky  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”

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• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

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  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother   Ice Water   Water Of Life  

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