Sap quotes
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost."
"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."
"Inaction saps the vigor of the mind."
"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"
"The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all."
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"Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it."
"Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020."
"Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud."
"Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface."
"There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing"
"Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion."
"Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up."
"What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated."
"There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all."
