Top 53 Sieve Quotes
#1. I think we're going to ditch Kellz as your nickname and just start calling you Sieve.
Jennifer Lazaris
#2. Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.
Erich Maria Remarque
#3. I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.
Ryan Miller
#4. The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Michel De Certeau
#6. The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
#7. Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.
Swami Veda Bharati
#8. He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story
Ted Dekker
#9. They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Khalil Gibran
#10. The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
Ayn Rand
#11. With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.
Flann O'Brien
#12. I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. Amos 9:9
Beth Moore
#13. Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
Marge Piercy
#14. The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#15. The fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
William J. Clinton
#16. Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.
Grant Morrison
#17. The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car ... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland
#18. The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This 'American sense' looked upon failure as a 'moral sieve' that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.
Scott A. Sandage
#19. What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.
Bonnie Friedman
#20. Sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve.
Jodi Picoult
#21. I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges Bernanos
#22. Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.
Carl Sagan
#23. is the answer none of the above
crouched in a hole like a mud-streaked fugitive
everyday a different version of
pouring it away like a water through a sieve
David Peter Gray
#24. They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
Edward Lear
#25. When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#26. Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?
Robert Jordan
#27. Well, if you're through taunting poor Mike, are you ready to go? (Nick)
You give me any lip, little boy, and there won't be enough left of you to run through a sieve. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
George Eliot
#29. My organs are dead, my bones are cracked, my skin is a sieve, punctured by pins and needles of pain.
Tahereh Mafi
#30. At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.
Tahir Shah
#31. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#32. The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand but lets the gold go free
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
G.K. Chesterton
#33. Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
Sam Kean
#34. But very little of it can do more
than start you on your way to the real, unimaginably
difficult goal of writing memorably. That work is done
slowly and in solitude, and it is as improbable as carrying
water in a sieve.
Mary Oliver
#35. I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.
Amy Poehler
#36. In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
Arthur Eddington
#37. One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
Albert Einstein
#38. Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
Gillian Jacobs
#39. This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
Ann Voskamp
#40. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
#41. People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
Edward Weston
#42. She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.
Laurie Lee
#43. His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Lewis Carroll
#44. Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.
Larry McVoy
#45. Before you speak, think if what you intend to say catches in one of the three sieves:
1. The sieve of truth
2. The sieve of love
3. The sieve of necessity
Socrates
#46. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#47. To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
Plautus
#48. States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne
#49. The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.
Paul Popenoe
#50. Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
George Lucas
#51. If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.
Ray Bradbury
#52. Evolution, and the selection of reproduction-worthy genes that drives it, is the opposite of random. It is a sieve that living things have to pass through successfully, or we never see them again.
Bill Nye
#53. Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
