The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch

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

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Aeschylus

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Herman Melville