Cups Quotes - Page 12

• Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

  Antonio Machado

  Patience, Running, Trying

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

  Charles Bukowski

  Coffee, Black, Hot

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• And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees

  Nick Cave

  Baby, Jobs, Believe

  Song: Brompton Oratory

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• All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Tiny, Waterfalls, Flood

  Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.14, Soho Press

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• but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

  Charles Bukowski

  Coffee, Thinking, Together

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.225, Zondervan

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• Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Night, Water, Fetch

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• It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother’s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Pain, Boys

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• What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?" Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have dropped it. Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form. "Well," she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Valentine, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Moving, School

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Night, Tongue, Bitterness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.795, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You nodded towards the cup. "Want more?" I shook my head. "What about the car?" "Didn't find it. You were heading back towards me when I found you." "Towards . . . ?" You nodded. "So I reckoned the car had probably got stuck or died somehow, and you were just coming home." "Home?" "Yeah." Your mouth twitched. "Back to me.

  Lucy Christopher

  Home, Found You, Car

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• Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Museums, Glasses, Ideas

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• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Flames, House

  1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

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• You sure about this?" I asked Thalia. She turned to me. "Amaltheia leads me to good things. The last time she appeared, she led me to you." The compliment warmed me like a cup of hot chocolate. I'm a sucker that way. Thalia can flash those blue eyes, give me one kind word, and she can get me to do pretty much whatever.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Blue, Giving

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• She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Light, Hands, Ivory

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1418, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Drinking, Coffee, Moving

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mother, Garden, Secret

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

  Anne Bronte

  Giving, Tea, Exclusion

  Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Coffee, Posters

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• And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

  Winston Churchill

  Recovery, Years, Firsts

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

  Josh Lanyon

  Wine, Jake, Ankles

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

  Amy Carmichael

  Water, Matter, Bitter

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• I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

  Gary Larson

  Couple, Coffee, Keys

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Jealous, Generosity

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• I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, Home, Feelings

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.77, Random House

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