Leaks Quotes - Page 4

• We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tea, Week, Made

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4452, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

  Trinh T. Minh-ha

  Desperate, Categories, Despite

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• A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Men, Melancholy

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Fire, Glasses, Guy

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

  Cesar Chavez

  Moon, Oil, Giving

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Glenn Greenwald Slams 'F**king Hawk' Hillary Clinton as 'Banal, Corrupted'" by Randy Hall, www.newsbusters.org. May 12, 2014.

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• There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Government, Class

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

  Billy Sunday

  Christian, Joy, Ifs

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• Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Sex, Wine, Ugly

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• A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.

  Philip D. Murphy

  Sorry, Father, Government

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• As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Awful, Size, Cleaning

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• You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Swimming, Games

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

  Rex Stout

  Genius, Sparks, Tire

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Doorbell Rang”, p.92, Bantam

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• The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.

  Anthony Loyd

  Fall, Water, Hatred

  Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.211, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

  Edward Abbey

  Jesus, Feet, Water

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

  Dan Brown

  Toilets, Thrones, Realization

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Clubs, Hateful

  "Responsibility for the Oil Spill is on You, Environmentalist Wackos". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Rush Limbaugh.

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• The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Mean, Media

  "Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian". Book by David Barsamian, chomsky.info. 1992.

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• Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Impact, Government, Asking

  "Why We Publish Leaks," Washington Post, 13 February 1998. The question is not whether the Post should "denounce" leaks-truly a red herring- but whether it will use leaks that put U.S. personnel in danger.

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• As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Guilt, Fleeting

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

  Charles Comiskey

  Things In Life, Reservoirs, Small Things

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• The leaks are real. You're the one that wrote about them and reported them, I mean the leaks are real. You know what they said, you saw it and the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Mean, Fake

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Reason Why, Welcome

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• Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information.

  Jay Carney

  Nsa, Effort, Answers

  "James Clapper: Obama stands by intelligence chief as criticism mounts" by Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2013.

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• What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's just the tip of the iceberg.

  Loretta Sanchez

  Believe, Media, Nsa

  "Quote of the Day: NSA Wants to Be Totally Open" b Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. June 13, 2013.

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