Quotes of Compressed - somelinesforyou

“ When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out — because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Capital itself is not bad,... What is bad is capitalism... when capital is concentrated in the hands of the few and used to exploit the rest. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance. ”

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

“ I realize that the margins are being squeezed,... We have a plan for that. ”

- David Harris

“ There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity. ”

- Amy Weber

“ It was a tough match in the beginning. But I was very focused and concentrated. ”

- Martina Hingis

“ It was a tough match. We lacked consistency during the first half but we played much better after the interval. ”

- Gerard Houllier

“ For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue. ”

- Anna Friel

“ When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were — to the very last minute — a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end. ”

- Barry Gibb

“ We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated? ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

“ Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. ”

- Mary Baker Eddy

“ What is art? Nature concentrated. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Endurance is patience concentrated. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The real essence of work is concentrated energy. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ The real essence of work is concentrated energy. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews. ”

- Christopher Lehmann Haupt

“ Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. ”

- Walter Cronkite

“ Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee … I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ We sit at breakfast, we sit on the train on the way to work, we sit at work, we sit at lunch, we sit all afternoon a hodgepodge of sagging livers, sinking gallbladders, drooping stomachs, compressed intestines and squashed pelvic organs. ”

- John Button Jr.

“ The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. ”

- Remy de Gourmont
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