Top 19 Cupful Quotes
#2. My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
John Muir
#3. 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
#4. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
Gustave Flaubert
#5. 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
#6. =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
#7. 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
#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. 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
#10. You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.
Wynonna Judd
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
Peter O'Toole
#16. Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
Anthony Trollope
#17. You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.
Jeff Ross
#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
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