Buckets Quotes

• Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

  Percy Ross

  Success, Ocean, Lakes

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• Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Marketing, Advertising Business

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• This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Competition, Growth, Corporations

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• [God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Heart, Looks

  Andy Stanley (2006). “Fields of Gold”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Simple, Water, Secret

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• Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

  Dave Barry

  Sleep, Long Ago, Eruption

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• Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.

  Tim Allen

  Blow, Drunk, Soldier

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• Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

  Robert Anthony

  Ideas, Rivers, Cups

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.

  William Monahan

  Real, Cutting, Needs

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• A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Years, Supposing That

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.665, Simon and Schuster

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• A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Wind, Sky, Cups

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• There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

  Rumi

  Empty, Fountain, Walks

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• We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Advice, Grain

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• Charge hell with a bucket of water.

  Liz Carpenter

  Water, Hell

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Ruffles & flourishes”, Texas A & M Univ Pr

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• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, Humor, Men

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Ocean, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2016

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• Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fire, Water, Reptiles

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社

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• Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

  Orrin Woodward

  Water, Leader, Gas

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• Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

  Austin O'Malley

  Happiness, Water, Gold

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• Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Rope, Prudence

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1831). “The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.47

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• Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Education, Time, Hours

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• I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

  Michael Weatherly

  Girl, Team, School

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• Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

  Bobby Bragan

  Sports, Baseball, Ice

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• I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

  Judi Dench

  Men, Ice, Water

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