Quotation Explorer - 'Cup'

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup? - Nyogen Senzaki
Time does have a way of softening most things. Anger, hate, and even loss are often diluted by the passage of time. And memories, well they become more precious as days go by . . . until one day the cup that seemed half-empty, incredibly, becomes half-full. - Cynthia Mock Burroughs
In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over. - Sheila C. Johnson
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. - Boris Pasternak
A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over a trivial point and be thankful you have something to drink. - Richelle E. Goodrich
I envythe cup of coffeethat getsto kissyour sleepy lipsawakeevery cold andbitter morning. - Sade Andria Zabala
I like my women like I like my coffee. In a plastic cup. - Eddie Izzard
Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! - Stephen D. Krashen
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. - P.G. Wodehouse
It's early on a beautiful winter morning. The house is quiet. The sun is shining. I'm thankful. I'm happy. My cup runneth over. Now there's coffee everywhere. - Mindy Levy
When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn’t give me that life. - M.F. Moonzajer
I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag. - W.B. Yeats
A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book. - Daniel Marques
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. - Benjamin Johnson
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? - Jean Kerr
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist. - Maya Angelou
If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime,anywhere - Rahul Bodkhe
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. - Mother Teresa
Always choose the adventure ... unless, it's chilly outside and there's a cup of warm coffee resting near a book and comfy sofa. - Barbara Brooke
Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the common tabby. They share a name, but one is a nice thing to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, and the other is found in the muck at the bottom of polluted rivers and has bits of debris sticking to it. - T. Kingfisher
It is a wonderful morning with the sun shining bright and flowers smiling. There is a sweet breeze kissing my face while a hot cup of coffee warms my heart and awakens my mind. The primordial songs of ocean waves are soothing my soul. I am not on earth; I am in heaven on earth. - Debasish Mridha
A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well. - Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped. - Once upon a time Belle
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp
The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I often want to drink a cup of moonlight so that I may calm my heart and soothe my mind. - Debasish Mridha
A teaspoon of love is better than a cup full of passion. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. - Lady Gaga
When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again. - John Mark Green
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. - Robert Fripp
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend. - Bruce Lee
I dreamt that I was old. And you you were beside me.Forever young in your hand, a cup of stars. - Joanne Harris
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!" - Louis C. K.
holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things - Brandon Scott Gorrell
He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead. - Brooke Warra
Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself. Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages. - Dharlene Marie Fahl
And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat. - Nick Stewart
In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy. - Debasish Mridha
You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds. - Karen Salmansohn
Like you begin your day with a cup of coffee or tea. Some begin their relationship with love and trust.It's not merely a choice - it's a habit and a lifestyle. - Saru Singhal
Cut off from the land that bore us,Betrayed by the land we find,Where the brightest have gone before us,And the dullest are most behind - Stand, stand to your glasses, steady!'T is all we have left to prize:One cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies! Bartholomew Dowling - http://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/re...
Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need? - Stanley Victor Paskavich
A full cup must be carried steadily. - English Proverb
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. - Dave Barry
You can't drink from the cup while you're filling it up. - Laura Hajek
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled. - Antonio Machado
May you get more out of life than a cup of tea. - Rebecca St. James
You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee - Sacha Hartgers
Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance? - James Jean-Pierre
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. - Audrey Hepburn
It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup. - Dennis Adonis
We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so. - R. N. Prasher
Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present. - Gerald N. Lund
No! I'm not ready, this is still my first cup of coffee! - Anthony Liccione
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis
A cup of tea is all I need to keep working. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum. - Adele Griffin
Stand at the brink of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little, and have a cup of tea. - Sophrony Sakharov
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Start every morning by drinking a cup of love, and you will enjoy the day and love everyone. - Debasish Mridha
All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235). - Jack Kerouac
Don’t be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose. - Tony Curl
I couldn't find my cup of tea.So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it? - Sanhita Baruah
I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination. - Liza Palmer
I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,So I trust, too. - John Masefield
Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Still, his apartment has that dreamlike qualityof feeling like home though I know it’s not. Not mine anymore but how many people get to visit the past without hurting anything?To come back and drink the same coffeefrom the same never-quite-clean cup? - Jameson Fitzpatrick
The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other. - Himmilicious
Parched by the deprivation of your love for so long made me forget what a cup brimming with love, on my lips, felt like. Everything that now wets it, only wrinkles it with a bland taste. - Abhita Jain
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