We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor…

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again,…

— William Hazlitt

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

— Plautus

“If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.”

— Ray Bradbury

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.

— Donald Trump

Ever crack an egg into simmering water only to watch the white spread out and form wispy tentacles? It happened to me until I…

— Claire Saffitz

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

“hand-crank sieve.”

— Michael Kaye

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

— Michel de Certeau

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

— Lewis Carroll

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are…

— John Piper

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of…

— Ben Sweetland

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

— Khalil Gibran

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

— Sergey Kirov

The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The…

— Francis Quarles