1,262 Quotes About Water

  • Author Mencius
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    Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.

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  • Author Michelle Moran
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    Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

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  • Author Nancy Mitford
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    always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

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  • Author Nathan Myhrvold
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    The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

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  • Author Nathan Myhrvold
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    Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

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  • Author Rachel Maddow
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    Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

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  • Author Roger McGough
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    Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

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  • Author Roy Miller
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    Everything is so saturated that the water has no place to go, and that's contributing to make the creeks rise.

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