19 Distilled Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. Florence Nightingale

Words Feelings Think Ought Distilled Results Which Themselves Actions Waste Bring

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. Ovid

Alcohol Distilled More Nap Stimulation Than Refreshment Even Ever

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. George Will

Life Game Respect Law Important Distilled Rules Ancient Rather Unchanged Purpose Most Judges Opponents Unwritten Than Just Common The Most Important Common Law Decisions Show Derives Baseball Codes

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. Gretchen Rubin

Love Words Few Distilled Complex Collect Paradoxes See Ideas Sort Because Proverbs Maxims Stories Aphorism Teaching Axiom

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Narcissism Control Virtuoso Distilled Total Charm Risk-Taking Delusion Over Terror Years Cunning Personal Many Showmanship Spectacle

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. Yehudi Menuhin

Rare Poet Half Distilled Potency Tiger Human Phenomenon Violinist

I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things! Andrew Zimmern

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. Anne Edwards

Battle Distilled Sexes Between She Essence

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want. Jack Canfield

Life Success You People Achieve Walks Secret Distilled About Well Learned Truths Quite Want Decide CEOs Working Full-Time Companies Large Helping Many Works Moms Universal

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. Jamie Lee Curtis

Me You Somebody Else Books Distilled Recognized Being Whereas Actor

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. Jerry Saltz

Work Art Distilled City Photographs Magic About Seems Majesty New Greatest Question York New York Paul Strand

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. Nicholas Culpeper

Gardening Ought Distilled Also Greatest Vigor Herbs Flowers

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. R. Buckminster Fuller

Words Matter Few Distilled Proverb Much

Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time. Stan Jones

Time Water Strong Pure Long Distilled Silver Only Long Periods Take Periods Make Tap Very Use Your Large

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war. Suzanne Collins

War Me Down Took Distilled Battles Unnecessary Would About Taking Idea Talking Years Question Dad Necessary

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. Tom Verlaine

Quality Distilled Those Poets Like Sound Wonder Chinese

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