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Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we're seeing both in stunning abundance.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

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.

Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is this planet's life - blood, which we are destroying. I always look for it in a poem. I honor it. I pay it mind.

Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

Water is life is love is life is water.

Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things.

Water flows uphill towards money.

Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

...was treading on dangerous water there...  (on Phil Neville)

Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Water is essential to life! It's also great for keeping your skin looking good and healthy, which is an added bonus.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Water is our next great environmental challenge. It is the new oil. How are we going to preserve this sport unless we are designing and maintaining golf courses that are energy net zero, carbon net zero and water net zero? Or ideally, energy positive, carbon positive and water positive, where they are taking out more than they are using.

Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.