Sieve Quotes

40 quotes by 39 authors

• ...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. — William J. Clinton
• Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis
• 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… — Ryan Miller
• To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient… — Canvass White
• To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with… — Frank Drake
• 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… — Edward Weston
• 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… — Grant Morrison
• 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… — Georges Bernanos
• 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… — Albert Einstein
• The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. — Gautama Buddha
• The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. — Michel de Certeau
• 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
• 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… — Paul Popenoe
• His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve. — Lewis Carroll
• The American public overwhelmingly regrets ObamaCare, our veterans are dying waiting to see doctors, the IRS intimidates conservative groups, the southern border is compared to… — Megyn Kelly
• Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed… — Lucretius
• 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… — Arthur Eddington
• 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… — Amy Poehler
• 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… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. — Khalil Gibran

Who Wrote These Sieve Quotes

39 authors contributed a total of 40 Sieve Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Sieve Quotes by Edward Cullen
• 1 Sieve Quote by Ann Voskamp
• 1 Sieve Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Sieve Quote by R.K. Narayan
• 1 Sieve Quote by John Piper
• 1 Sieve Quote by Ben Sweetland
• 1 Sieve Quote by William J. Clinton
• 1 Sieve Quote by Zahid Abas
• 1 Sieve Quote by Arlene Francis
• 1 Sieve Quote by Ryan Miller
• 1 Sieve Quote by Mariana Fulger
• 1 Sieve Quote by Canvass White
• 1 Sieve Quote by Gillian Jacobs
• 1 Sieve Quote by Frank Drake
• 1 Sieve Quote by John Wesley Powell
• 1 Sieve Quote by Edward Weston
• 1 Sieve Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1 Sieve Quote by Grant Morrison
• 1 Sieve Quote by Anuj Somany
• 1 Sieve Quote by Georges Bernanos
• 1 Sieve Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Sieve Quote by Gautama Buddha
• 1 Sieve Quote by Michel de Certeau
• 1 Sieve Quote by Edward Lear
• 1 Sieve Quote by Paul Popenoe