Cups Quotes - Page 39

• It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.

  Shirley Jackson

  Philosophy, Hands, Exotic

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• All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Sugar, Bottom

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• I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, War, Coffee

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.121, Zola Books

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• one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.

  Peggy Noonan

  People, Giving, Personality

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• Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Thinking, Chocolate

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• 'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Night, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.124, Vintage

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Food, Wine

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  A. E. Housman

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Coffee, Makeup, Thinking

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 1992.

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• we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

  George Sand

  Suffering, Drink, Anguish

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• [On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

  Laura Kightlinger

  New York, Coffee, Cities

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• One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

  Djuna Barnes

  Pain, Eye, Men

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Affliction, Salvation, Saviour

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• If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mean, Justice, Half

  Sojourner Truth (2017). “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)”, p.104, e-artnow

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• When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

  Jane Porter

  Sensual, Poison, Pleasure

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.110

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• Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Misery, Bitter, Self-importance

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• I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Voice, Chocolate, Hot

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• Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

  Margaret Halsey

  Exercise, Boys, Thinking

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

  Julia Roberts

  Appreciate, Worry, Sublime

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• Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, Sobriety, Trying

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• I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Coffee, Years, Twenties

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• I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

  Joy Behar

  Coffee, Thinking, Reality

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• I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

  Calamity Jane

  Comfort, Balls

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• Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Wine, Soul

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• Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.

  Heloise

  Giving, Tea, Taste

  Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

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