Pouring Quotes

• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

  Sai Baba

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

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• Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

  Bill Cosby

  Drinking, Glasses, Alcohol

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• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  Conor Oberst

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Heart, Character

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Creativity, Ideas, Teaspoons

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 12, 2012

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• Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, God, Loneliness

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Mind, Vacancy

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• Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Coins, Purses

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• Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ocean, Sea, Earth

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

  Bill Maher

  Iraq, President, Comedy

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• I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Men, Fire, Kitchen

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• It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

  Graham Coxon

  Beer, People, Cheesy

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• Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Being Alone, Fighting

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 20, 2015

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• It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

  Eric Clapton

  Reality, Emotional, Mind

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• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Comeback, Insult, Hail

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• Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

  Thomas Friedman

  Oil, Ties, Would Be

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• You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

  Don Bluth

  Holes, Endless

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

  Honor Blackman

  Father, Rain, Holiday

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• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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  Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiring, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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