Quotes About Dilution

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

Why do you want to share your suffering? By sharing I will dilute it.

Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing's left but posers ogling each other over the bleached remains. If

And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.

It never works that way. Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. All you can do is hope to control it.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

Ast?zi armele sunt diluate într-un aer È™i o mâncare care otr?vesc. Puterea nu mai are nevoie de puÈ™ti, de lag?re È™i de sârm? ghimpata, nici de tancuri, totalitarismul este diluat în atmosfera È™i în materia gândirii noastre

Why, when a poison is diluted in water to the point where it cannot by physically detected, does the previously toxic solution then become therapeutic? When the substance itself is gone, and all that is left is the information from the vibration, both poison and medicine become the same.

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing.

Está na hora da homeopatia!

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.

An Ohioan added that the soup was made in four kettles, but in order to stretch the soup to make enough for 4,000 men, it was then diluted with "freezing water" brought in pails directly from the river. "The quality of the last mess was decidedly thin, after undergoing so many dilutions; and there is no doubt that the addition of some eighty pailfuls of cold river water detracted somewhat from its flavor." {38}

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn't mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

Si uno diluye un buen poema en un litro de agua consigue un cuento regular. Si uno diluye ese cuento en diez litros de agua, consigue una novela innecesaria.

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.