(852 quotes found)
“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.”
W. Clement Stone
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Buddha
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury
“In the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty”
William Shakespeare
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.”
E. M. Forster
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do. / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you.”
Philip Larkin
“What shall we use To fill the empty spaces Where we used to talk?How shall I fill The final places?How should I complete the wall”
Pink Floyd
“Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise,While turkeys, in their earth-bound crowds, fill the atmosphere with noise.”
William Arthur Ward
“Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.”
