Hot Water Quotes

• Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

  Bruce Laingen

  Funny, Water, Tea

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• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

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• I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

  Andy Weir

  Water, Tea, Hot

  Andy Weir (2017). “The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel”, p.318, Broadway Books

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  A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Strength

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• Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Business, Water

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 20, 2013

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• Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

  Brownie Wise

  Water, Hot, Necks

  "Sales Speech: Eat Your P’s If You Want to Grow Rich" by Peter Bennett, www.laverneonline.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

  Bob Phillips

  Daughter, Water, Hot

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• We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

  Tom Dreesen

  Family, Water, Hot

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• Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Women, Humor

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Strong, Believe, Water

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• Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

  Earl Weaver

  Water, Optimism, Mind

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• In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Writing, Ideas

  "Woody Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

  John Updike

  Life, Water, Hot

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Frozen

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Coffee, Mean, Water

  Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

  Austin O'Malley

  Water, Hot, Stories

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• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

  Ezra Pound

  Passion, White, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Makeup, Water, Faces

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• There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

  Cliff Richard

  Couple, Water, Hot

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• If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

  Tom Ford

  Lying, Thinking, Water

  "Tom Ford: fashion's slickest control freak" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong, Water, Tea

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• Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

  Dodie Smith

  Father, Believe, Water

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• Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.

  Tamora Pierce

  Lying, Water, Understanding

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• Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Courage, Water

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