Overflows Quotes

When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth. - Proverb

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim --objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them. . . - William Hazlitt

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. - Oscar Wilde

We had a contract that was performance-based with guarantees to allow the commission to meet the consent decree. They (USF) said there would be zero overflows. They failed to have a design to produce zero overflows. - Robert Tucker

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Their sewer system is overloaded and there are sewage overflows. - Freda Tarbell

The issue they need to address is when it overflows, what happens? - Kevin Johnson

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. - William Blake

That extra year, the kids need it. Their brain hasn't matured. Sometimes I relate this to trying to pour a gallon bottle of milk into a pint and it just overflows -- they can't take in all that information. - Irv Slosberg

Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,
Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
Life overflows without ambitious pains;
And rains down life until the basin spills,
And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains
As though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . . - William Butler Yeats