Water, running - It was observed in ancient times that ghosts dislike crossing running water. In modern Britain this knowledge is sometimes used against them. In central London a net of artificial channels, or runnels, protects the main shopping district. On a smaller scale, some house-owners build open channels outside their front doors and divert the rainwater along them.
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Related In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I... HIDEO KOJIMA We got to looking around and there were extension cords running all over the business. The main elec... CHARLES GIVENS They're not foolproof. But running water never freezes. Think of a waterfall. The water is constantl... FRED YOUNG They came running back saying they needed a net because they saw an alligator. I thought they were s... BILL CHASE I think running against an incumbent in a three-way race is very challenging. I'm pleased with the s... JANE FELLNER My mother raised nine kids in a tiny house with no electricity and no running water. ROLAND MESNIER Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is li... PETER KREEFT There was no running water, no electricity, and some were sleeping in wooden boxes. LETICIA ZAMARRIPA If liquid water pops out onto Mars' surface, it can create short gullies about 550-yards (500-meters... JENNIFER HELDMANN This results in a yellow or green tinge being observed when large volumes are tapped into a bath for... KARL LUBOUT Some of the water system is up and running, but they haven't gotten water to a point to where the cu... FREDDIE DEBOSE He used hot water to open his doors, he got in, closed the doors and drove to work. When he got to w... JAMES OLIVEIRA The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute -- food and water running out, no power, 4 f... GREG SIMON The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute ? food and water running out, no power, 4 fe... GREG SIMON The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute food and water running out, no power, 4 feet... GREG SIMON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or
in running water. UNKNOWN We've had some success against Tampa Bay running the ball the last two times we played them. We know... MARK TAUSCHER They've got flooding. They've got power outages. Their sewer lift station, their water facilities ar... KEN OLSON This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river o... HARRY ROBERTS I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations ra... DOUG COOPER We always had so many kids in our family, running around the yard, sweaty little kids jumping in and... ROMAN REIGNS Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. ELIZABETH GILBERT Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in... BRYAN ANDERSON She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain. AL STEWART Fishing is awesome. It has pulled off all that water and has concentrated the fish in a smaller amou... DAVE TERRE In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running w... NANCY GIBBS If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel. ENGLISH PROVERB If people like their water and they drink water, then they should be concerned. Maintaining the wate... MARAN HILGENDORF It is back on the run, running north in Central Park. CARLI SMITH This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river o... HARRY ROBERTS People are in their cars and try to cross a low-water crossing and don't realize that it doesn't tak... LAURA DOYLE He (Malhotra) put the puck on the net and we had traffic in front of the net. It was one of the few ... GERARD GALLANT In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet o... CHARLES LYELL We're going to be investigating different channels of shopping in the upcoming years and the ones th... HARVEY SEEGERS ...-compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side d... MICHAEL POLLAN On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and... SANTIAGO CALATRAVA She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING We didn’t have a vacuum or dishwasher. When I told my mother we didn’t have a washing machine, i... LINDA LEAMING We're doing something new this year: We're unbundling local TV channels. Customers can choose local ... MARC LUMPKIN The signs of movement may be falling rock or running water. COLONEL RAUL FARNACIO If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In Korea, there are many people who keep their family dogs in their garden, neglecting their physica... YOON KERR Beauty is seeing a flower bloom in a garden or in nature. Artificial is seeing that same flower... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running d... AMY VANDERBILT These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart go... KID ROCK Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural ele... STEPHANIE GREEN Maker is extremely proactive and creative with their talent. They seem to have mastered the difficul... LINDSEY STIRLING Even if you're running air conditioning, the hot water is really a big spike in your energy bill. FRED MOORE Some criminals are walking around vehicles with a cell phone in hand, acting like they are talking t... BOB WILKINS Boys are found everywhere on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running arou... ALAN BECK Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm
and it will turn. ROBERT GREENE Rain not only produces all this water, it causes people to close their doors and lock their windows.... ED GARCIA If we would have run just a little better, we'd have taken first. We're running against the best tea... JEFF MARCUS I chose London because of the great field. I thrive and love running against the best. I assume the ... DEENA KASTOR I don't think there is a tremendous future for large numbers of news channels in Britain. It's movin... JON SNOW It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't stop running water. Cindy's was the final tear. JOAN BAEZ When we are running full out, we average around 35 million gallons (of water) a week. Annually, we c... ALEX KAUFMAN There's a stream running through the entire course that feeds into the Mississippi at the end. Water... BILLY PIERCE Running out of water isn't the problem. We just need to be more careful about the way we manage it. DR SELINA WARD It takes about 30 minutes to set up. We just need two rooms with access to running water and electri... DAWN THORPE I wouldn't say we're out of the water [offensively]. I don't feel like the bats are up and running f... GREG BEALS Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches ... SANTOSH KALWAR Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p... SARA SHERIDAN What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water. CATULLUS We didn't want to give them some tape to scout us on when we play in district, so we changed things ... BRENT HAND The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER We didn't want to stick them with brand-newborn babies in shelters with thousands of people. There's... CHERI JOHNSON Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p... SARA SHERIDAN It was unfortunate that the players had to take such a stance and maybe it was immaturity on the par... RAFIK KHAN The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA It struck me that Chuck Grassley was like a guy with a bucket of water who runs up to a burning hous... GORDON FISCHER We also made it clear that if they begin reprocessing (nuclear material), it changes the entire poli... COLIN POWELL I walked over to two firemen kneeling on the front porch, and I heard this awful noise. And it was S... JANELLE BERRY We're going to be very deliberate about this. We're not in the game of running a smear campaign agai... JASON KENNEY Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with th... JOSEPH BRODSKY We've got 50 generators sitting on trailers that would get water and sewer back running, but they wo... CARL GRIFFITH The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN When there are 100 HD channels to choose from, just being in HD won't be a big deal. By 2010, or may... GREG MOYER Used effectively, DRM technologies have the potential to open up these new channels to traditional p... BEN MACKLIN That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Someti... REM KOOLHAAS A lot of this sport is about momentum. Sometimes with these young kids they'll let the match in fron... DON GARRIOTT That start and stop action and the way you can suspend it in front of them is what gets them. ... LES JARMAN I want to make it clear so that everyone understands the city is not running out of water. But I am ... BRAD HILL Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! BILL WATTERSON I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What is happening is with the water level dropping they are getting closer to the creek channels and... BRIAN DUPLECHAIN We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we did... PHIL ROBERTSON It sunk a foot and all the walls are moving. Just the whole house is coming in on itself... basicall... BILL LACOMBE We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inapprop... KURTIS COOPER When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog... ERMA BOMBECK The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is gu... OWEN JONES This new regulatory regime for cable could potentially have devastating impacts for our proverbial 5... ADAM THIERER Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS...
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JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child. JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ... JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo... JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ... JONATHAN SCHATTKE Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. JONATHAN SWIFT If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by... JONATHAN KOZOL The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w... JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will ... JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge. JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas... JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he... JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor... JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. JONATHAN SWIFT What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n... JONATHAN MILLER Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. JONATHAN SWIFT Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re... JONATHAN RABAN One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h... JONATHAN SWIFT