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Tag Name "Sieve" (25)

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Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
George Lucas
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Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
Gillian Jacobs
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Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.
Larry McVoy
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]
Plautus
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
William J. Clinton
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I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.
Amy Poehler
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
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This message in me has been like, you know, Every day, Lord, teach me to say, 'Here I am, send me.' No matter how uncomfortable it is, no matter how awkward it could be, no matter - I don't want to put his will through my sieve, you know, through my lens. I just want His will.
Darlene Zschech
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In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.
Donald Trump
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People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
Edward Weston
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Gautama Buddha
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges Bernanos
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Khalil Gibran
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Lewis Carroll
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I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.
Ryan Miller
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Well, if you’re through taunting poor Mike, are you ready to go? (Nick) You give me any lip, little boy, and there won’t be enough left of you to run through a sieve. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare
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One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
Albert Einstein
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
Ann Voskamp
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The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
Ayn Rand
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In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.
Donald Trump
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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
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