Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. — Lao Tzu
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. — Thomas Moore
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. — Vita Sackville-West
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again. — Walter Inglis Anderson
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott
Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table. — Ingrid Trobisch
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. — Omar Khayyam
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry. — Octavio Paz
To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink. — Ruth Pitter
The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap. — Billy Sunday
Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room — T. S. Eliot
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases. — Pablo Neruda
One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside. — African Proverbs
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. — Pierre Cardin
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game. — Douglas Adams
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. — Malcolm De Chazal
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. — Francois Rabelais
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. — Marcel Proust
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away. — Christine McVie
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot. — Horace
Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase. — Guity Novin
Flower Vase Quotes
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase. — Guy Finley
It's not about the way you look
It's not about your face
It's all about the way you think
It's all about your grace
You're love is like a power chase
You're like an oak tree growing in a flower vase — Mac Lethal
There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world. — Edouard Boubat
If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy. — Jay McInerney
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase. — Bertrand Russell
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower. — Juliette Binoche
We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening. — Bailey White
Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop. — Clinton Smith
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text. — P. J. O'Rourke
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground. — Gore Vidal
Broken Vase Quotes
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. — Walter Savage Landor
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. — Vera Nazarian
He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before. — Cassandra Clare
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? — Leo Tolstoy
Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently. — Anis Mojgani
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Like A Vase Quotes
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. — John Loengard
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that? — Jonathan Safran Foer
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. — George F. Kennan
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time. — Jules Michelet
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase. — Edward Ruscha
Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before. — Magnus
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died. — Megan Hart
Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore. — Marilyn Manson
You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep. — Elliot Perlman
Trust Based Quotes
Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word. — Kenneth Copeland
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. — Mitchell Reiss
Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character. — Larry Winget
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. — Seamus Heaney
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. — Klaus Balkenhol
Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it. — Confucius
Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it. — Rick Warren
Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes. — Joe Garagiola
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain. — Thomas Sowell
I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again. — John M. Gottman
A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble or expense involved is honestly repaid in real decorative effect. If you find cut flowers too extravagant, stick to the greens. Laurel, rhododendron leaves, huckleberry or pine will all last many days, even weeks. — Dorothy Draper
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase. — Hunter S. Thompson
[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything. — Lotte Lenya
It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is. — Jacques Maritain
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry. — James Whitcomb Riley
If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? — Saint Francis de Sales
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend. — William Shakespeare
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century. — Harold Rosenberg
Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase. — Fabio Novembre
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never. — Walter Savage Landor
I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance. — Faith Baldwin
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