Sump Quotes

#1. Just as the purpose of the liver is to act as a sump for the poisons of the body, the soul has its organs for containing and isolating the toxic discharge of human suffering.

Paul Hoffman

#2. Through it all we held fast to the concept of the clock with no hands. Tasks were completed, sump pumps manned, sandbags piled, trees planted, shirts ironed, hems stitched, and yet we reserved the right to ignore the hands that kept on turning.

Patti Smith

#3. It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

Ray Dalio

#4. one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!

Bill Bryson

#5. Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Earl Warren

#6. When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

Josh Fox

#7. Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to ... A form of political illiteracy.

Bill Kraus

#8. If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

John Green

#9. When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.

M.J. Rose