Quotes About Leaking
It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on—which was just what you wanted it to do. Where the pilgrims imagined it crawled to I don't know. To some place where they expected to get something, I bet! For me it crawled toward Kurtz—exclusively; but when the steam-pipes started leaking we crawled very slow.
~ Joseph Conrad
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It's hard to surprise people with everything leaking on the Internet.
~ Bryan Konietzko
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James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
~ Donald Trump
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Bodily fatigue, which nearly always accompanies this hateful malady, can wear down the spirit. And how can the Holy Spirit work with a vessel that's leaking as fast as he can fill it?" "If I know you," the bishop continued, kindly, "you are not resting. You are not recreating.
~ Jan Karon
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
~ Bob Woodward
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We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.
~ Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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Like water leaking through a dam, said Piper. Yeah, smiled Percy. We've got a dam hole. What? Piper asked. Nothing, he said. Inside joke.
~ Rick Riordan
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Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist.
~ Khaled Hosseini
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I did realise that this job was too grim for most people, all the stinking and leaking and dying. Mine was a peculiar vocation.
~ Emma Donoghue
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
~ Candy Crowley
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Our 'ego' or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated and vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect.
~ Alain de Botton
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The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the Arecibo telescope (used to study the ionosphere and map asteroids) could be detected with a similarly sized antenna at a distance of nearly 1,000 light-years.
~ Seth Shostak
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The pathologist glanced at me. "I told you," he said. "All the drama was after he was dead. No heartbeat, no blood pressure, no circulation, therefore no swelling and no contusions. Not much bleeding either. It was just leaking out by gravity. If he'd been alive when they cut him, it would have been running like a river.
~ Lee Child
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On a daily basis I'm covering things that are leaking out of the White House and leaking out what should be closed-door meetings on the Hill. That is not integrity.
~ Harris Faulkner
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A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.
~ Francine Rivers
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Um, Galen . . . This one is leaking.Styxx Galen laughed. Danae cried out in horror. am so sorry, Highness! I-- Bah, Galen scoffed, interrupting her. Not the worst that boy's had on him, is it, young prince? Definitely not. But . . . He passed Elpis back to Galen. I fear I have no experience with this realm of domesticity. I've never even seen a pana, never mind tried to apply one to such a small person.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
~ Sam Kean
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Christ all the seasons of the year, is dropping sweetness; if I had vessels I might fill them, but my old riven, holey, and running-out dish, even when I am at the well, can bring little away. Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty30 vessels . . . How little of the sea can a child carry in his hand; as little do I take away of my great sea, my boundless and running-over Christ Jesus. Sure
~ Samuel Rutherford
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Christ all the seasons of the year, is dropping sweetness; if I had vessels I might fill them, but my old riven, holey, and running-out dish, even when I am at the well, can bring little away. Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty30 vessels . . . How little of the sea can a child carry in his hand; as little do I take away of my great sea, my boundless and running-over Christ Jesus.
~ Samuel Rutherford
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he spoke out forcefully against leakers, including former CIA agent Philip Agee, who had just released a tell-all book. My father could forgive a lot of mistakes, but he believed that it was disgraceful for a man to violate his oath and reveal state secrets, especially when it could lead to the loss of innocent American life.
~ George W. Bush
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He's waking her in every moment. Disturbing her. Reaching through her and abandoning her at the same time. He throws her down and takes her and cuts her open. The bedspring leaks - a howling, desperate noise of falling down and springing up, even though they don't want to. Refusal is pointless. Complaint has no use. Some crying crawls to the doorway where I stand. It hobbles out from the gap in the door and lands at my feet
~ Markus Zusak
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking.
~ Fran Lebowitz
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life
~ Sylvia Plath
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This is the problem with the leaking. This is actually a terrible thing. Let's say I'm firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
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