Cups Quotes - Page 5

• The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

  Margaret of Valois

  Joy, Empty

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• When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

  Hermann Maier

  Stars, Children, Team

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• There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Hockey, Years

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• I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

  Hermann Maier

  Goal, World, Stills

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• I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

  Ronnie Wood

  Coffee, Lines, Drink

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

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• My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

  Just Fontaine

  Goal, Finals, Records

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• The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

  Michel Patini

  Memories, Past, Important

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• The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Filled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  Mae West

  Coffee, Euthanasia, Double Meaning

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• Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Grief, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Mean, Risk

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• A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

  Robert Jordan

  Despair

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.188, Macmillan

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• The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Vineyards, Littles

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• The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

  Paul Brunton

  Sweet, Inspiration, Wine

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Character, Cracks

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• Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Finding Yourself, Tea, Behind You

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• There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.

  Miranda Kerr

  Differences, Comforting, Tea

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

  Kathy Freston

  Drinking, Simple, Two

  "3 Reasons Your Diet Isn’t Working" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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• That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

  Jean Ferris

  Tea, Cups Of Tea, Alleys

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• If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

  Lawrence Block

  Coffee, Spoons, Weak

  Lawrence Block (2001). “The Thief who Couldn't Sleep”, Center Point Pub

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• It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.

  W. Sangster

  Helping Others, Drunk, Sorrow

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• However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Illusion, Pints

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.41, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Flight, Empty

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

  James M. Barrie

  Tea, Life Is, Drink

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Real, Drinking

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