Pooling Water Quotes & Sayings

Hope is a continuous flowing river. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents' warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet?
Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room?
When you were big enough to cross the street on your own, did you ever wait for a signal, hear the frenzied approach of a fire truck and feel like stepping out in front of it?
Did you wonder just how far that rocket ride might take you?
When you were almost grown, did you ever sit in a bubble bath, perspiration pooling, notice a blow dryer plugged in within easy reach, and think about dropping it into the water?
Did you wonder if the expected rush might somehow fail you?
And now, do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home? — Ellen Hopkins

He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth. — Michiko Katsu

It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success
is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in
Creation and his relationship to all things. — Thomas Yellowtail

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. — Floyd Abrams

My passport's green. — Seamus Heaney

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood — George S. Patton Jr.

Then I knelt heedfully upright and mentally prayed as we'd been instructed to do, some scared and scientific part of me assaying myself for chemical reactions or a sudden infusion of wisdom while fancying Christ now sitting dismally in my scoundrel soul, my oh so many sins pooling like sewer water at his sandaled feet. But soon I saw that I was still me; there would be no howls of objection, no immediate correction or condemnation, no hint that I was under new management, just the calming sense that whoever I was was fine with Jesus.

It was a grace I hadn't imagined. — Ron Hansen

When you record an album and it goes platinum ... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts. — Donny Osmond

While he lived on and on, freezing and thawing, these mortals went through routines, lived and died, unaware that he even existed. 'It's — Hugh Howey

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see. — Leni Riefenstahl

It's like walking through someone's small intestine. — Cody Lundin

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose. — Dean Koontz

Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it? — George Will

A store is a portrait of its owner. — Chip Averwater

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart. — Sarah Shahi

The thing about being selfish is that you don't care if someone is at your feet begging you to stay with him, offering you the world, his heart and soul. It doesn't matter. You'll do whatever you want to do. What you need to do for yourself. Nothing matters but what you want. What you think you need. — Mia Asher