Divining For Water Quotes & Sayings

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. — Lionel Shriver

For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked to hear about death, ugly things, secrets heavy with tears. She wanted her very own world, and it had never heard of beauty and good fortune. — Cornelia Funke

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them. — Francois Fenelon

All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there. — Jeff Greenwald

You character and action will reveal your purpose. — Debasish Mridha

Astragalomancy was a method of divining the future or learning hidden knowledge by rolling dice. A ceromancer dropped melted wax into cold water and interpreted the figures thus produced. Halomancy required the reading of the shapes made by casting a handful of salt on a flat surface. A necromancer sought answers by communicating with the dead. — Dean Koontz

His dick is hard now, like mine, a divining rod in a land where water is everywhere. — James Halat

It's always been you Lea. There has never been anyone else for me but you. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

I can't go out and plant a million trees, but I can go out and tell [students] to plant 10 each. Sometimes you need to ask yourself what exactly do you want- a grove or a forest? — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways. — Susan Straight

The tone and tendency of liberalism ... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress. — Benjamin Disraeli

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too. — Carolyn Hax

My father had a very unusual psychic ability, he could detect water. It's called divining. He would use a Y-shaped U-branch, and he could find water with that, which is a very impressive skill in a country where it rains 365 days of the year. — Craig Ferguson

You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.
I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even "scot free. — Howard Tayler

You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first. — Sophie Jordan