Quotes About Sieve

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Only memory matters. Mine sometimes overflows. Because it harbours my father's memories, too, since his mind has become a sieve. No, not a sieve: an autumn leaf, dried, torn. No, a phantom which I see only at midnight. I know: one cannot see a memory. But I can. I see it as the shadow of a shadow which constantly withdraws and turns inward. I hardly glimpse it, and it vanishes in the abyss.

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

As these two officials took their places, Dorothy asked: Why is the colander the High Priest? He's the holiest thing we have in the kingdom, replied King Kleaver. Except me, said a sieve. I'm the whole thing when it comes to holes.

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

Ever crack an egg into simmering water only to watch the white spread out and form wispy tentacles? It happened to me until I came across this game-changing fix: Break the egg into a sieve set over a bowl. The watery outer edge of the white will drain through, leaving the thicker white and yolk intact.

blinded visionary that locks the moon in place; I am the simple sieve that drinks the universe.

Well, if you're through taunting poor Mike, are you ready to go? (Nick) You give me any lip, little boy, and there won't be enough left of you to run through a sieve. (Zarek)

Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,And Hope without an object cannot live.

The environment is the agent that does the shaking of the sieve.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. Amos 9:9

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

The mind of the true economist is a sieve which lets everything fall through except that which is of use to him in the business of his life. He also employs only necessary words, and does only necessary actions, thus vastly minimizing friction and waste of power.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a sieve.

The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?