Quotes About Dregs

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.

God almighty. It is the dregs, really, to be living in a time when even your dreams have to be post-postmodern consciouser-than-thou.

His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.

Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Unwinding isn't just good medicine—it's the right idea." It was the very rightness of the idea that made Nelson become a Juvey-cop to begin with. The knowledge that he would leave the world a cleaner, brighter place by dredging the dregs from the streets was what propelled him into the police academy

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want to do that. We wanted big melodies and hooks, organic melodies that could fall apart at any moment.

Secrets lie in the entrails of things, in the dregs.

Berry, supping the dregs of his tea. 'Well, not sitting here we won't. Tomorrow morning you and I will take the railway to Norwich. If I'm wrong, well, I'm wrong,' said Anders, swigging the awful tea back in one go.

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

The portion of some is to have their Affliction by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the Cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.

Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.