Ben Sweetland
Ben Sweetland

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Buddha
Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Claire Saffitz
Claire Saffitz

Ever crack an egg into simmering water only to watch the white spread out and form wispy tentacles? It happened to me until I came across this game-changing fix: Break the egg into a sieve set over a bowl. The watery outer edge of the white will drain through, leaving the thicker white and yolk intact.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

Gillian Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

John Piper
John Piper

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

Madeleine M. Kunin
Madeleine M. Kunin

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

Sam Kean
Sam Kean

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

The King's Speech
The King's Speech

King George VI: ...a sieve of thisted siffles!