Water Speed

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or speed:

“The water which supports a boat can also sink it.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)