quotes about Porcelain

last updated: November 28, 2023

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.
-- Brandon Cox

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The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.
-- Eric G. Wilson

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.110, Macmillan

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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall...
-- Rick Bragg

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If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.
-- Robert X. Cringely

Source : "Personal Email and Private Clouds Fall in War on Privacy". www.infoworld.com. August 09, 2013.

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“Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.”
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper
“How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.”
“He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.”
“A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
“I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.”

Source : "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.
“Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.”

Source : "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.
“To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.”
“Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.”