Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Quotes

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

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• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.

  

  Parker Young
  • Mad
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• You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Work
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  • Season

• The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reading
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• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Satisfaction
  • Chains

• I did not know that [ the Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bit frightened of dogs]. I wanted to make her happy. When I learned that she does not like dogs, I apologized, of course.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Dog
  • Doe
  • Frightened

• There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Teach

• The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Relationship
  • Universe
  • Removing

• I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Serious
  • Meals

• All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Moving
  • Animal
  • Compassion

• It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

  

  William Manchester
  • Rhetoric
  • Eloquence
  • Shallow

• Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

  

  John Milton
  • Books
  • Shallow

• A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Language
  • Made
  • Conversation

• The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Belief

• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Idea
  • False

• Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Social
  • Movement
  • Benefits

• Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • School
  • Running

• I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Country
  • Children
  • Education

• Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Discrimination
  • Agenda

• The Dutch people want refugees to be safe but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • Men
  • Country

• The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Presence

• The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

  

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
  • Shallow
  • Teapots