Deep Water Quotes

• When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Feet, Use

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• You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

  Kate Tempest

  Water, Know How, Knows

  "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.

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• You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Water, Knowing God, Knows

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• In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Brave, Ignorant

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• God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I thought could never be done. Push me to go to the deep waters of life and cast my net wide, for I put all my hope, trust and faith in you.

  Matthew Kelly

  Water Of Life, Challenges, Done

  Matthew Kelly (2017). “Rediscover Lent”, p.44, BookBaby

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• Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Water, Swim, Shallow

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• A great ship asks deep water.

  George Herbert

  Greatness, Ships, Asks

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• The heart of a man is like deep water

  Douglas Coupland

  Heart, Men, Water

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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• If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

  Prashant Iyengar

  Whales, Ponds, Ifs

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• Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.

  Wayne Muller

  Plant Life, Light, Wind

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.75, Bantam

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• When I get in deep water, I prefer to announce that I'm in over my head.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reflection, Hands, Saws

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• The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Healing, Passion

  "Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason". Book by Caroline Myss, 2009.

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• God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

  John H Aughey

  Mean, Men, Lessons

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• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Destiny, Men, Depth

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Simple, Thinking

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Truth Is, You Think You Know

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• The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Real, Talking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Risk, Ships

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

  Earl Hines

  Smile, Ivory, Challenges

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• Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Christian Inspirational

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.852, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

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• And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Home, Heart, Fire

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• Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

  Charles Dickens

  Giving Up, Sea, Clouds

  Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.65, Quiet River Press LLC

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