Quotes of Reservoir - somelinesforyou

“ In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. ”

- Vince Poscente

“ I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. ”

- Bernardo Bertolucci

“ Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. ”

- Billy Graham

“ The grass is always greener over the septic tank. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ If the tanks succeed, then victory follows. ”

- Heinz Guderian

“ I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. ”

- Vince Poscente

“ Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. ”

- Percy Ross

“ Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin. ”

- Tim Roth

“ The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and not a reservoir. ”

- John Mason

“ It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ”

- Henry Miller

“ I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race. ”

- Maude L. Frandsen

“ No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. ”

- William James

“ I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. ”

- Jeff Koons

“ A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response. ”

- Rex Julian Beaber

“ Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite… He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well — even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ”

- B.C. Forbes
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