And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
What we would like to do is change the world. . . by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.
And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young
I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [. . . ] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.