Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.
The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
Simmering resentment saps energy.
I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week.
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
