General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“If you believe there is always a better way, take the next step in exploring your potential with ZaranTech” — Mr Alok Kumar Copy Share Image
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the… — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective. — George Packer Copy Share Image
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image