Quotes by Buckets We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be. Wendell Berry buckets scary expectations Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. William Butler Yeats buckets hills companion I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show. William Monahan buckets cutting real Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. William Stafford buckets just-being memories There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life. Wright Morris buckets floating doors The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. Winston Churchill buckets sea people ...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought. Winston Churchill buckets water war «123456