Drop Quotes

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. (Aeschylus)
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Every drop in the ocean counts. View quote
Yoko Ono
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
If God dropped acid, would he see people? View quote
Steven Wright
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. View quote
Mother Teresa
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
The rain starts with a single drop. View quote
Manal al-Sharif
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. (Georg Büchner)
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. View quote
Henry Miller
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. View quote
Timothy Leary
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. View quote
Ray Bradbury
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I've never dropped anyone I believed in. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
James Thurber
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. (O. Henry)
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The "democracy gap" in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the "least worst” every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the "least worst” gets worse. View quote
Ralph Nader
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. View quote
Charles de Gaulle