Cups Of Tea Quotes - Page 7

• When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Tea, Suffering

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• He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

  Flann O'Brien

  Goodbye, Suicidal, Home

  "Myles before Myles: a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan".

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

  Barry Pain

  Girl, Tea, Cottages

  Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell

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• When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

  Florence Nightingale

  Coffee, Science, Sick

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.76

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• I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

  Anthony Lane

  Morning, Writing, Two

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• You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Tea, Safe, Cups

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.292, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

  Murray Walker

  Change, Car, Tea

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• Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

  Bill Watterson

  Rain, Book, Reading

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

  Greg Mortenson

  Military, Warrior, Curves

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Tea, Cups, Spirituality

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• I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

  Amanda Plummer

  Play, Careers, Tea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Simple, Eggs

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.

  Ned Kelly

  Tea, Littles, Cups

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• I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Tea, Needs

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• I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

  Doug Davidson

  Pie, Tea, Cups

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• Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Tea, Way, Cups

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.203, Penguin

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• May you get more out of life than a cup of tea.

  Rebecca St. James

  Tea, May, Cups

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• The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Tea, Stories, Cups

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Miracle at Speedy Motors”, p.22, Anchor

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• If you find a girl who reads, keeps her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real because, for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Couple, Real

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• Hagrid howled still more loudly. Harry and Hermione looked at Ron to help them. 'Er-shall I make a cup of tea?' said Ron. Harry stared at him. 'It's what my mum does whenever someone's upset,' Ron muttered, shrugging.

  J. K. Rowling

  Upset, Tea, Doe

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• The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

  Kiera Cass

  Eye, Tea, Looks

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

  Arnold Bennett

  Wise, Tea, May

  Arnold Bennett (2009). “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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