Rene Descartes Quotes

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

Women's weapons, water-drops.

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.

As you move to the top, remember the story of the pump. If you start pumping casually or half -heartedly, you will pump forever before anything happens. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.