Leaks Quotes

• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

  John Cole

  Espionage

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• In headaches and in worry
  Vaguely life leaks away,
  And Time will have his fancy
  To-morrow or today.

  W. H. Auden

  Worry, Fancy, Today

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.75, DEBOLS!LLO

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• A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Government, Vessel

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• Every aquarium will eventually leak.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Aquariums, Thrive

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• After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Moving, Boards

  Gary Snyder (1971). “The Back Country”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

  Julian Assange

  Stopping, Censorship, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Rain, Roof, I Can

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• One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Sin, Pilgrims Progress

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

  Brian Eno

  Government, Talking, Dubious

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.

  Sabrina

  People, Focus, Creative

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• The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

  Julian Assange

  People, Helpful, Protective

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• We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Infinite, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

  William Greider

  Gathering, Routine, News

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

  Marya Mannes

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Years, Paper

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• A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

  Matt Drudge

  Giving, Attention, Stories

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

  Kathy Mattea

  Art, Thinking, Perfection

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• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Joy, Religion

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

  Charles Olson

  Morning, Blessing, Snow

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.231, New Directions Publishing

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• I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

  Douglas Feaver

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

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• My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

  Joshua Slocum

  Journey, Boston, Nuts

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.278, Applewood Books

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• If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

  Karl Rove

  Want, Administration, Knows

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• As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

  Julian Assange

  Successful, Pipeline, Gaps

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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