Tea Quotes - Page 36

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

  Bruce Laingen

  Funny, Water, Experience

  14 Copy quote

• The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

  Anthony Storr

  Sympathy, Done, Damage

  11 Copy quote

• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

  72 Copy quote

• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

  53 Copy quote

• Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspiring, Freedom, Blue

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.46, Penguin

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Distance, Party, Winning

  "Andrew Breitbart on 'Hannity': 'This Is Not About Shirley Sherrod'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Guy

  5 Copy quote

• The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Political, Historical

  "Tea Party Movement Rescued the GOP" by Peggy Noonan, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 22, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

  Les Dawson

  Blood, Giving, Wife

  25 Copy quote

• I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

  Lesley Boone

  Suicide, Suicidal, Cake

  16 Copy quote

• Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

  Jason Wong

  Cute, Coffee, Life Is Like

  10 Copy quote

• I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Grateful, Black And White, Tuna Fish

  8 Copy quote

• The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, America, Balance

  4 Copy quote

• Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, Movement, Juniors

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. August 17, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

  Jeff Goodell

  Party, America, Effort

  4 Copy quote

• The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

  Hosokawa Tadaoki

  Lying, Reality, Understanding

  7 Copy quote

• Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

  Derren Brown

  Cake, Reason

  55 Copy quote

• I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Two, Get Up

  4 Copy quote

• I am not afraid of anybody.   This is a tough game.   You can't be intimidated.   You can't be frightened.   And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Games, Tough

  162 Copy quote

• London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Apples, Sunflower, Paper

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, America, Shills

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Mother, Fun, Heart

  111 Copy quote

• The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, People, Sitting

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Martin Chuzzlewi”, p.728, Cosimo, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dog, Drinking, Feet

  7 Copy quote

• A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.

  Phoebe Cates

  Girl, Rooms, Newborn

  4 Copy quote