Hydrological Models Quotes & Sayings

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect. — P. J. O'Rourke

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. — Bruno Bettelheim

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals. — Deepak Chopra

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave. — Trey Parker

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not. — Jason Patric

Neither Bwitists nor Fang felt they could eradicate ritual sin or evil in the world. This incapacity means that men have to celebrate. Good and bad walk together. As Fang frequently enough told missionaries, "We have two hearts, good and bad." Early missionaries, aware of these self-confessed contradictions, evangelized with the promise of "one heartedness" in Christianity. But Fang by and large did not find it there. For many, Christian one heartedness was a constriction of their selves. While "one heartedness" is celebrated in Bwiti, it is a one heartedness which is coagulated out of a flow of many qualities from one state to another. It is goodness achieved in the presence of badness, an aboveness achieved in the presence of belowness. It is an emergent quality energized in the presence of its opposite. — Terence McKenna

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl. — Zoe Lister-Jones

You are more focus when you confront. — Sunday Adelaja

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age — Aaron Sorkin

Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along. — Julie E. Czerneda

I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence. Every sort of thing happened, at home and outside, every day, but I don't recall having ever thought that the life we had there was particularly bad. Life was like that, that's all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us. — Elena Ferrante

I've become one of those parents who demand their children go to the bathroom. "But I don't have to." "Well, go anyway. — Jim Gaffigan

[A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick] — Dan Simmons

The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin. — Jodi Picoult

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. — Anthony Doerr