Water Quotes - page 85

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses. (Ian Goldin)
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. View quote
James Marsh
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains. View quote
Jerry Costello
In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. View quote
Jerry Costello
I do mostly Southern landscapes. I do beautiful old barns that are falling down, and beautiful trees reflecting in the water. My lovely wife Dorothy and I travel quite a bit, so I take pictures of different things that inspire me to come home, when I come home here in North Carolina, into my art studio and paint these things. View quote
James Best
Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use. View quote
James Lind
We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. View quote
Kevin Richardson
It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role. View quote
Kym Whitley
Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands. View quote
Kenelm Digby
A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water. View quote
Leslie Dewan
There are really only two things I'm terrified of: water and cockroaches. (Leslie Hope)
The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. View quote
Mary Karr
I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,' I have some fish, a whole buncha water snails, and a tarantula named 'Sweet Pea.' View quote
Matthew Underwood
On singing in the swimming pool If I can move the water, I can move the people. View quote
Michael Bolton
I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water. View quote
Michael Chertoff
If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. View quote
Michael D. Barnes
When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that. View quote
Michael Moriarty
Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water. View quote
Michael Muller
I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees. View quote
Michelle Ryan
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer. View quote
Mika Brzezinski
As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets. (Moshe Sharett)
Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. View quote
Natalie du Toit
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you. View quote
Natalie Goldberg
Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA. View quote
Natalie Jeremijenko
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation. View quote
Natascha McElhone