Cupful Quotes

#1. He lost his sight and found a vision. He proved dramatically that it's not what happens to us that determines out lives - it's what we make of what happens.

Ken Robinson

#2. Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

#3. We are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

Cassandra Clare

#4. You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Saint Francis De Sales

#5. You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

Wynonna Judd

#6. Lean forward, and head on down the mountain.

Bill Konigsberg

#7. The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year's cupful and downward into a decade's quart and downward into a lifetime's ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman's float.

Anne Sexton

#9. Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Bernard Baruch

#10. There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

Peter O'Toole

#11. =Doughnuts= 1 Egg 1 Cupful of Milk 1 and 1/3 Cupfuls of Sugar 2 Teaspoonfuls of Cream of Tartar 1 Teaspoonful of Soda Piece of Butter the Size of a Walnut 1/4 Teaspoonful of Cinnamon or Nutmeg Salt, and Flour enough to

Lydia Maria Gurney

#12. He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as the destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

E.L. Konigsburg

#13. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.

Ramana Maharshi

#15. Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

Anthony Trollope

#16. You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

Jeff Ross

#17. My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

John Muir

#18. I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

Nadia Scrieva

#19. Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? "Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat ... " That's freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Award already!

Jim C. Hines