Top 25 Distil Quotes
#1. Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.
David Cobley
#2. Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Mankind had a chance to reach the stars - but all they did was use that abilty to cast down fire upon one another. Eyes always downward, never toward the lights above
Brandon Sanderson
#6. You turn dark shadows into canopies of hope and dry grass into gold.
My heart is spoiled and my breath consumed when the beauty of earth
gives a glimmer of understanding to the beauty of You.
Amy Litzelman
#7. The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#8. My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things.
John Legend
#9. But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.
Mary Shelley
#10. For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
John Updike
#12. Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#13. A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
Eddie Redmayne
#14. It is now or never," said the yew tree. "You must speak the truth.
Patrick Ness
#15. I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
Fred Upton
#16. Distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer's defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#17. Sacred space in which
To distil, like amber,
The best of your love.
Scott Hastie
#18. I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.
Adam Rogers
#19. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: DEU32:03 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Anonymous
#20. When first discovering a night sky, the eyes may pick out a few tiny stars. Waiting and watching reveals thousands, until it seems there is yet more light than empty blackness. So my life has been, and so it continues.
Sumangali Morhall
#21. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.
Francis Quarles
#22. I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
Jodie Foster
#24. I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
Deborah Eisenberg
#25. Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
George Schultz
