A Quote by George Eliot

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

George Eliot

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.

Swami Veda Bharati

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

Stephen King

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

Plautus

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

George Eliot

As you move to the top, remember the story of the pump. If you start pumping casually or half -heartedly, you will pump forever before anything happens. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

Zig Ziglar

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Joe Frazier

Study water. Try to grab a hold of water, and it will always elude you. You just have to let yourself be in it. It's soft, and it overcomes anything that's hard. Put the hardest substance - say, titanium - out there, and let water flow over it. Eventually, patiently, peacefully, the water will just wear it away. Also, water will enter anywhere - through any opening at all. So, let yourself be like that. God is in nature, everywhere and always. And we have so much to learn.

Wayne Dyer

Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water. Don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

Max Brooks

Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

Max Brooks

Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.

Larry McVoy

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

William Shakespeare

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

Michelangelo Antonioni

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Edward Lear

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Dwight L. Moody

I was working on a heat pump that used water as a working fluid, and I made some jet pumps for it. I accidentally shot a stream of water across a bathroom where I was doing the experiment and thought to myself, 'this would make a great gun.'

Lonnie Johnson

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Lewis Carroll

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