Quotes of Trickle - somelinesforyou

“ Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. ”

- Theocritus of Chios

“ Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ”

- Arthur Somers Roche

“ Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. ”

- Elias Canetti

“ Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things. ”

- Mike Leigh

“ Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. ”

- Warren Buffett

“ I saw the same dynamic in our family - a dysfunctional family - mirrored in the country in the 1980's. If you take this family, and you put them up there as the First Family - if you look at what the dynamic is in the family - you might have a pretty good sense of how it's going to trickle down. ”

- Patty Davis

“ The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke's wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel. ”

- Stan Hey

“ A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel — until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion. ”

- Ayn Rand
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