Top 100 Quotes About Leaks
#1. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
Graham Greene
#2. I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.
Alex Gibney
#3. Megalodons," Prometheus announced, pulling the Rukma higher and higher, little fountains of water spilling from the leaks in its sides.
"They were at least thirty feet long!" Scathach said.
"I know," replied the Elder. "They must have been babies.
Michael Scott
#4. I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.
Barack Obama
#5. A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes ... The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
Sivananda
#6. God is asking you to take care of this special place. He says: If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks (Ecclesiastes 10:18).
Jim George
#7. There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
Ben Bradlee
#8. He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#9. The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.
Glenn Greenwald
#10. When you're in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you're in love with a person, but you're in love with a syringe.
Craig Clevenger
#11. Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.
Jon Stewart
#12. Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones."
T. Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
#13. The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
#14. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
Ann Zwinger
#15. Excuses are leaks in a boat. When you cover one, another pops up, and it's even bigger. It's hard to keep the boat repaired and get safely to shore if you have an excuse mind-set.
James Altucher
#16. You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
Will Rogers
#17. Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.
Alex Gibney
#18. Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.
Heather Brooke
#19. And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Kathy Mattea
#20. The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.
John Eldredge
#21. A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
Yasunari Kawabata
#22. Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.
Lauren Beukes
#23. I wrote a trilogy out of order and then rearranged it, because the whole of life is like that
a cut-up
and when you cut into the present, the future leaks out.
Chris Campanioni
#24. Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.
Merrit Malloy
#25. We seem to have more leaks in my office than an old wooden rowboat.
B. J. Daniels
#26. As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.
Evgeny Morozov
#27. Confused, I asked, "The coven's what?"
"Plumber," Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. "You know. Stops leaks?"
Oh goodie. I'm a leak.
Kim Harrison
#28. The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.
Elliott Abrams
#29. This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.
George R R Martin
#30. The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.
Jemima Khan
#32. The hall door, beside which Rob worked that dreary noon, looked very old; its weathered brown paint was carved by long black lines left by leaks in the porch.
J.M.K. Walkow
#33. It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet ... you're exhausted.
Julianne Moore
#34. No president likes leaks, but it's worth noting candidate Trump's path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn't have a problem with leaks then. It's not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.
Jake Tapper
#35. Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#36. An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
Francis Bacon
#37. The robot learns to love. A single, oily tear leaks down his cheek. We don't know whether he's crying or just needs maintenance.
Andrew Miller
#38. A person whom lacks self-discipline leaks energy chasing naked ambitions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#39. When two(cars) run an orange, the red leaks." MS
Sulin Young
#40. It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.
Cesar Chavez
#41. Besides, there are no secrets. Sooner or later the truth leaks out. That's one thing I've learned in this life.
Katie Kacvinsky
#42. Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18
Beth Moore
#43. You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.
Young Thug
#44. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
#45. I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.
Nicole Richie
#46. Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers' leaks and beat reporters' expertise.
Jeff Jarvis
#47. There is no way that the new WikiLeaks leaks don't leave Hillary Clinton holding the smoking gun. The time for her departure may come next week or next month, but sooner or later, the weakened and humiliated secretary of state will have to pay.
Jack Shafer
#48. I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.
Jim Propp
#49. In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or today.
W. H. Auden
#50. In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled.
Brad Goreski
#51. Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me
Criss Jami
#52. None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.
Mark Noble
#53. There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
James Randi
#54. The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.
Sallie Tisdale
#55. Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.
Joan Claybrook
#56. You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
Dennis Lehane
#57. The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Michel De Certeau
#58. I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber.
Anais Nin
#60. My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.
Gottfried Benn
#61. Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.
Lee Kuan Yew
#62. Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal.
Thomas Friedman
#63. Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound.
Death Cab For Cutie
#64. My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.
Helen Salter
#65. You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
Bruce Sterling
#66. With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.
Mark Zuckerberg
#67. The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
Julian Assange
#68. He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.
Jim Grimsley
#69. Every emotion we feel is like one drop of rain in our heart. When our heart rain starts to overflow, it leaks out the window to our soul as a tear.
Lisa Mischelle Wood
#70. Panic freezes you. Nobody is going to go into your head and take the panic away. But action leaks the panic out of your head.
James Altucher
#71. A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
#72. Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
Igor Stravinsky
#73. been ignited by loose talk, by leaks," Amburgey went on, "the fact the city
Patricia Cornwell
#74. We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
John O. Brennan
#75. As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
Julian Assange
#76. For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
Barton Gellman
#79. Diaper that leaks onto the floorboard of my car while I'm stuck in
Gloria Furman
#80. You will write about that... you will write this and this and this... you gonna do that and that...
...
Promises and promises... leaks in the holes!
Deyth Banger
#81. If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
Markus Zusak
#82. The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.
Jesus Zamora Bonilla
#83. Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.
O. Henry
#84. He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
Samuel Johnson
#85. The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.
Glenn Greenwald
#86. I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull.
E. Lockhart
#87. Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
Anonymous
#88. You act like you have a saggy diaper that leaks." "Maybe you need to take your Shut-The-Hell-Up pill.
J.A. Konrath
#89. Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
William Greider
#90. Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!
John Patrick Hickey
#91. The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.
Howard Brenton
#92. Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.
Benjamin Wittes
#93. We want. Life leaks. Desires are disappointed. And God, our Father, remains eternally good.
Jen Pollock Michel
#94. You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks.
Joe Abercrombie
#96. It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.
James P. Hogan
#97. That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
Colin Trevorrow
#98. The best leaks always take place in the urinal.
John Cole
#99. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.
Edward Snowden
#100. We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
Henry David Thoreau
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