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
  • American
  • House
  • Freedom

• 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
  • Definition
  • Intensity

• 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
  • Strength
  • Season

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

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reading
  • Can Do
  • Complaints

• 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

• The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

  

  Eddie Jemison
  • Industry
  • Shallow
  • Hedonist

• Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Goal
  • Aspiration

• And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Truth
  • Darkness
  • Shadows

• 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

• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Family
  • Die

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

  

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
  • Shallow
  • Teapots