Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
Every hour you spend on your rear end. . . saps your energy and ruins your health.
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.
Simmering resentment saps energy.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.
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.
I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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.