Saps Quotes

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being,
and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
- James Russell Lowell

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant
in the heat of inspiration,
express the idea of their author in a few strokes,
while on the other hand too much effort and diligence
sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who
never know when to leave off.
- Giorgio Vasari

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I don't have to look up my family tree,
because I know that I'm the sap.
- Fred Allen

General principles...
are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
- Rodney Dangerfield

We all know that any thing which retards in any way
the free circulation of the sap,
also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.
- Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form,
which process checked the flow of the sap,
and at the same time encouraged the production of side
branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
- Robert Fortune

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander
the material committed to him,
not to sap his strength in folly and vice,
and to see at the least that he delivers a product
worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
- Anna Julia Cooper

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms,
sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
- John Philips

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
- Casey Affleck

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic,
nice dinner, or traveling.
I'm kind of an old romantic.
- Will Estes

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader,
somehow.
Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print,
saying this.
- David Foster Wallace

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping
the life out of the people who perform the services
and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
- Conrad Burns

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology,
and the combining together of various processes into a social whole,
only by sapping the original sources of all wealth -
the soil and the labourer.
- Karl Marx

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and
independent distribution system.
The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
- Don Henley

Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Misery is the company of lawsuits.
- Francois Rabelais

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience,
impair your health, and dissipate your property.
- Jean de la Bruyere

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county.
The U.S.
has more costs of litigation per person than any other
industrialized nation in the world,
and it is crippling our economy.
- Jack Kingston

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers.
I think we made a couple of them rich.
- Gavin Rossdale

I have a different approach.
I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
- Nicole Kidman

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or
monuments all over the country,
and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.
- Phyllis Schlafly

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history,
a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn
the outcome of an election for president.
- James Baker

Without public pressure from caring people,
our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.
- Morris Dees

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
- David Dinkins

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of
tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important
things for us on the Internet.
- Joichi Ito

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished
by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win
frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
- Thomas Sowell

As a part of preparing those lawsuits,
learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the
various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production
process I guess you'd say.
- Tom Udall

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system.
All citizens should have the right to band together
and settle grievances with bigger companies,
but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
- Thomas Carper

The president, just as any other American,
deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits
not related to his office.
But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort,
confronted with ridicule and intimidation,
I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging
the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.
- John Jay Hooker

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe,
something to be branded.
If the music industry wants to save money,
they should take a look at some of their six-figure
executive expense accounts.
All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
- Jeff Tweedy

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay.
I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff.
Tom does.
That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do.
You do not tell Tom what to do.
He is a force to be reckoned with.
- Nicole Kidman

The U.S.
couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein.
And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad.
They'll be killing each other again in less than a year.
I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
- Bill Gates

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money!
Old people remember what interests them:
the dates fixed for their lawsuits,
and the names of their debtors and creditors.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our health care system is the finest in the world,
but we still have too many uninsured Americans,
too high prices for prescription drugs,
and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians
out of state or out of business.
- Judy Biggert

In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms
Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry
from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful
acts of people who misuse their products.
- Bob Ney

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important,
common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit
the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal
injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
- Bob Ney

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial
lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous
lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay
monetary damages to those who,
of their own accord, consume too much of a legal,
safe product.
- Bob Ney

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus

Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry

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