Leakage Quotes:

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

topic: Men, Identity, May, Leakage, Promiscuity

The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

topic: Nice, Kids, Responsibility, One In A Million, Leakage

THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

- Jonathan Franzen

source: Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

topic: Hurt, Years, Keys, Leakage, Contractions

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

- Mary Douglas

topic: Rome, Church, Goes On, Leakage, Splitting

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Thinking, People, Mind, Leakage

We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Cutting, India, Needs, Leakage

Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Real, Fire, Pay, Leakage, Deflation

The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Real, Thinking, Media, Perpetrators, Leakage

My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

- James Thurber

topic: Wall, Grandmother, Years, Leakage

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

- Greg Bear

topic: Military, Years, Trying, Leakage, Nuclear Terrorism

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

- Daniel Goleman

source: Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.14, Random House

topic: Bystanders, Toxic, Emotion, Leakage, Secondhand Smoke

In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

- Steve Whiteman

topic: Technology, Years, Insightful, Leakage, Direct And Indirect

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

- Mary Roach

topic: Slime, Birth, Forget, Leakage

Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.

- Neal Stephenson

topic: Choices, Littles, Matter, Leakage

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.

- Christian Bale

topic: Stars, Character, Goal, Leakage