Distills Quotes

#1. The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#2. They sang that song which distills all the suffering and the hope of Africa; that song which had inspired and comforted so many, "Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika," God Bless Africa, give her life, watch over her children.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Some things the gut distills to their essence no matter how hard you try to factor in compassion and mercy and understanding. One of them killed the other. And there is violence in my heart.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

Pablo Neruda

#5. Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

Stephen R. Covey

#6. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Eric Hoffer

#7. The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

Richard Stearns

#8. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Jacques Barzun

#9. Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Stephen Fry

#10. Pain distills. The clarifying emotion.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.

Stephen Covey

#12. Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore

Mary Karr

#13. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel De Unamuno

#14. Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

Rebecca McClanahan

#15. Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

Thomas Ligotti

#16. Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ...

Euripides

#17. The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

Abi Morgan

#18. Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

Yasmin

#19. Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

James Surowiecki

#20. Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Newt Gingrich

#21. In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.

Danielle Brooks

#22. I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#23. Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.

Tom DeLay

#24. To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

Criss Jami

#25. There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about.

Anton Chekhov

#26. In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

George Lucas

#27. Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.

Colm Feore

#28. I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.

Warren Buffett

#29. The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Roy Blount Jr.

#30. For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.

Julian Barnes

#31. If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Joyce Brothers