Spills Quotes

• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

  Louis MacNeice

  Stones, Killing, Kill Me

  'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

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• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Fredric Jameson

  Two, Culture, Levels

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

  John J. Geddes

  Writing, Dark, Moon

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• One man gathers what another man spills

  Robert Hunter

  Men, Another Man, One Man

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Laughter, Inspired, Over The Edge

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• Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

  Horace

  Mind, Superfluous

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• The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

  Richard J. Needham

  Birthday, Men, Age

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• What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Games, Criticism

  "Rand Paul: Obama's criticism of BP ‘un-American'". www.chron.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Past, Oil

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• Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Sorry, Coffee

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

  Sam Harris

  War, Blood, Ideas

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can't have oil without oil spills.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Oil, Oil Spill

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• I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Running, Nice, Water

  "25 Hottest Stars Under 25", Teen People Magazine, 2002.

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• The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

  Hilda Conkling

  Rain, Lakes, Sky

  Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Years, Fascination

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics". Book by Michael Guillen, 1983.

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Height

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Love, Sports, Tennis

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• Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Oil, Impact

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• Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fossils, Cost

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

  John Updike

  Love, Doe, World

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 08, 2015

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• When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

  Barack Obama

  Moving On, Party, Independent

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• Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

  David Suzuki

  Drinking, Water, Toxic

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