Cups Quotes - Page 33

• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Wise, Bitter, Illness

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  Nick Cave

  Powerful, Flames, Hands

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• The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

  Benni McCarthy

  Football, Home, Player

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• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  Gabby Douglas

  Love Is, Snacks, Apples

  "Get to know U.S. Gymnast, Gabby Douglas!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

  Anthony Lane

  Morning, Writing, Two

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• I think Neuer changed the game of goalkeeping in the World Cup.

  Oliver Kahn

  Thinking, Games, World

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• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Lonely, Art

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• I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

  Hermann Maier

  Strong, Winning, Would Be

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• Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

  Alfred de Musset

  Wine, Thinking, Yield

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.49, tredition

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• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  Marge Piercy

  Sweet, Spring, Wine

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• Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.

  Brian Clough

  League, Coaching, Championship

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• I Can't win the World Cup alone

  AB de Villiers

  Winning, World, Can't Win

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• I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

  Amy Sedaris

  Holiday, Turkeys, Fake

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• The wild Bee reels from bough to bough
  With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
  Now in a lily cup, and now
  Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
  In his wandering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Lilies, Coats

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.849, Wordsworth Editions

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• By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

  Merlin Mann

  Coffee, Ironic, Mosaics

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

  Anthony de Mello

  Wall, Taken, Eye

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• Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

  Anne Fine

  Drinking, Holiday, Kitchen

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• England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

  Charles Churchill

  Stars, Fate, Tea

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!

  Paul Stanley

  Wake Up, Waking

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• A cup of tea is a cup of peace.

  Ken Cohen

  Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Wine, Winter

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.15, tredition

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• Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Love, Lonely, Wine

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• If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

  Scott Pruett

  Winning, Race, Careers

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• I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.

  Elizabeth Strout

  New York, Coffee, Opposites

  "Elizabeth Strout on 'The Burgess Boys'". Interview with Dylan Foley, www.chicagotribune.com. March 23, 2013.

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