Imbibe In Quotes

#1. And there's no saying what heady potions we won't concoct, what meanings, myths, manias we won't imbibe in order to convince ourselves that reality is not an empty vessel.

Graham Swift

#2. The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

F. Sionil Jose

#3. For when it is in the hope of making a priceless discovery that we desire to receive certain impressions from nature or from works of art, we have qualms lest our soul imbibe inferior impressions which might lead us to form a false estimate of the value of Beauty.

Marcel Proust

#4. Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

Francis Of Assisi

#5. The water that flows through the canals is both beautiful and deadly. Its tranquil surface belies that toxins beneath-unpleasant to touch, deadly to imbibe.

Fiona Paul

#6. I have two much-beloved stovetop espresso pots at home, plus a couple French presses I couldn't resist buying because they were so pretty. If I had to imbibe at Starbucks, I'd want a mocha with an extra shot.

Emma Holly

#7. She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

Joanna Russ

#8. Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.

Alexander Hamilton

#9. A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

Holbrook Jackson

#10. Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation.

Shallu Jindal

#11. My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice - that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation. No,

Gail Carriger

#13. Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.

R. Scott Bakker

#14. In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Ajay Naidu

#15. All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.

Peter Akinola

#16. The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe,' he said. 'Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. It is a golden chapter in the history of India's maritime security. May INS Vikramaditya, imbibe the radiance of the sun and confidence of victory in each one of us.

Narendra Modi

#18. Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Joseph Hall

#19. Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Anne Rice

#20. What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood.

Patti Smith

#21. The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.

Steven Erikson

#22. It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#23. We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

Radhanath Swami