A Quote by William Shakespeare

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare

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Brook Deep Runs Smooth Water

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

Nhat Hanh

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Robert Frost

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Perry Brass

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Robert Frost

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

Ving Rhames

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

Kate Tempest

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

Sarah Palin

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

George Bird Grinnell

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Gautama Buddha

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

John Steinbeck

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Alan Watts

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

Katherine Hannigan

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

Steven Morrissey

When you're standing in deep water And you're bailing yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a wall Well it's these little time that help to remind It's nothing without love, love, love