What one moment from you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway?'' There is silence. Tobias doesn't get her point, and frankly, neither do I. She continues: ''Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive. - Douglas Coupland After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive. - Douglas Coupland

The man went to the controls, looking up at me, flaring his nostrils to my actions. His voice was like a voice under water. "We'll see what becomes of your rebellious nature when you lose your memories, Rei Lin." He punched a few buttons and turned the knob on the wall to the right. - Millicent Ashby The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being.. - Henry Beston I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together, and first it'll seem strange, and pretty soon it'll seem strange that you could ever lose someone, or get lost. - Jennifer Egan As for now, we must not forget who would have to ex...

Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe. - Cassandra Clare Where did you wash? the boy thought. The village water supply was two streets down the road. I must have water here for him, the boy thought, and soap and a good towel. Why am I so thoughtless? I must get him another shirt and a jacket for the winter and some sort of shoes and another blanket. - Ernest Hemingway One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply? - Geraldo Rivera He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full...

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them. - George D Aiken There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature. - Helen Clark

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies. - Daniel Quinn I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. - Maurice Sendak

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) - Sara Gruen When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. - Jacob Jankowski, Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley! - J R R Tolkien The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. - Arthur Golden Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself. - Tove Jansson

He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always happened was that people found out, gossip at the water cooler, meaningful looks in the hallway. And sooner or later the spouses found out. It always happened. Slammed doors, divorce lawyers, child custody. - Michael Crichton People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler. - Mike Farrell My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed. - John Krasinski

A flower blooms in my heart. You may call that love, but I call it water conservation. - Jarod Kintz In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. - Ron Kind

He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knifepretty much every tool a modern demigod could want. - Rick Riordan Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears. - Juliette Gordon Low I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one. - Brennan Manning ...

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. - Marjory Stoneman Douglas The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. - Bjorn Lomborg My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. - Bjorn Lomborg

Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else. - Jodi Picoult I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. - Hermann Hesse Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right. - Brian Clough The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. - Nhat Hanh To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. - Nhat Hanh How can I step out of His will save into something that cannot be wished? Shall I start trying not to lov...

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. (Interview with Paris Review , 1958) - Ernest Hemingway The man went to the controls, looking up at me, flaring his nostrils to my actions. His voice was like a voice under water. "We'll see what becomes of your rebellious nature when you lose your memories, Rei Lin." He punched a few buttons and turned the knob on the wall to the right. - Millicent Ashby I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. - David Blaine Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myse...

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him. - Sarah Addison Allen 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. - Eoin Colfer Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time. - Stan Jones Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water. - Lionel Shriver It was a whole world, his mouth, a whole unsuspected world, and kissing him occasioned the same sense of discovery as sliding a clear drop of plain tap water under a microscope and divining whole schools of fantastic fibrillose creatures, or pointing a telescope at a patch of sky pitch-dark to the naked eye and lo, it is spattered with stars. - ...

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. - Elizabeth Gilbert The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want him for long He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and there are no green pastures He leadeth me beside still waters and still waters run deep - Ernest Hemingway ...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on. - Sarah Addison Allen You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. - Aristophanes Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire. - W H Auden Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. - Simon Van Booy Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish ma...

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it. - Friedrich Nietzsche You humans live in shallow waters - Dani J Caile Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus. Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred. - Suzanne Collins Ideas are like fish. If yo...

Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. - Karen Blixen The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste. - William Shakespeare later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. - Jimmy Buffett The streams of salt water continued to flow freely from my eyes and over my cheeks. "There's a female approaching," David warned. "Stop crying." "I can't," I whimpered. - Nely Cab On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count. - Suzanne Collins Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime ...

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. - Truman Capote His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight. I'd like to cry into his eyes. - Tahereh Mafi I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens. - Laura Restrepo

Pine trees rise through cloud soar up into the blue skies, bush clover spangled with dewdrops sways in the autumn breeze; As I dip cold, pure water at the edge of the stream, a solitary white crane comes lolloping my way. - Baisao We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. - Gilbert Newton Lewis It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns. - Thomas Merton For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very...

Looking out toward the open water she thought they could have floated in time, landed anywhere in the last thousand years. - Ellen Airgood She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. - Stewart O Nan Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. - Will Steger