Top 36 Sours Quotes
#2. When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.
W.C. Fields
#3. Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we're good enough.
Martha Beck
#5. I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.
Norman Mailer
#6. A compliment withheld is like meat stored away for later; it sours before you get any use out of it,
Robert J. Crane
#7. Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.
Kevin E. Phillips
#8. You shudder beneath the orange glow, the wet reptile streets, while heading back to the muted torture of your dirty room, where some cruel memory sours the walls, viciously, like wisps of a flaming hell.
Brian Alan Ellis
#10. Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.
Pat Dye
#11. The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
Mason Cooley
#12. Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely - flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.
Edgar Allan Poe
#13. We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
Philip Massinger
#14. Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.
Frances Wright
#15. I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
Geraldine Brooks
#16. The closest held secret is the one that never sours with age.
Steven Erikson
#17. I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, "What would an Apollo astronaut do?" He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.
Andy Weir
#18. The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.
Bill McKibben
#19. Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.
Jonathan Grimwood
#20. I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.
James MacDonald
#21. I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
Maurice Sendak
#22. The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,
Even in the moment that we call them ours.
William Shakespeare
#23. Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good.
Janice Hardy
#24. A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.
Reginald Arkell
#25. A kingdom needs tending, just like a cheese. Leave a cheese too long and the whey settles to the bottom and sours the whole. Leave a kingdom for too long and others rise to the top and take the whole.
Jackie French
#26. Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.
Travis Bradberry
#28. We weren't born to suffer, we were born to make a difference. Our pain is just an unfortunate consequence of becoming the people we were destined to be
Sara Furlong Burr
#29. To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Joseph J. Ellis
#30. We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
Dan Gilroy
#31. What's a quantum extrapolator?' I ask.
'You are,
Tade Thompson
#32. Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Matthew Simpson
#33. I have a theory that theories are destructive.
Carl Whitaker
#34. The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Victor Hugo
#35. The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
Howard Fast
#36. I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.
Robert Pattinson
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