When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: to love more, and be happy.    From LearnThat.org.  [Hafiz]

distill the essence of this compound.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to distill whiskey from mash. ,to distill out impurities. ,She managed to distill her ideas into one succinct article. ,The cool of the night distills the dew.    From Dictionary.com. 

Career guides try to distill jobs into basic components.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Geeks Can Navigate The Workplace] Reference

The product which then commences to distill is known as tailings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference

How to distill that huge number to a few essential characteristics?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Blogs?] Reference

Or soak them in malmsey and some capon broth before you distill them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

They wanted to distill the essence of epic rock into short, soulful pop tunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Social Scene: Indie Rock Originals] Reference

We're going to distill these issues with both of you throughout the hour today.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2003] Reference

The liquid is fermented with sour dough and allowed to distill through the barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference

The various hydrocarbons distill over in the general order of their boiling points.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

If the water is very hard it is easy to distill what is needed for drinking purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

He figured out how to distill people's hearts into loving one another unconditionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2008] Reference

The Hollanders build ships, refine sugar, dredge oysters, distill liquor and brew beer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference

The words foretell, distill, instill and fulfill retain the double ll of their primitives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

He also discovered a working method with which he could distill sentiment into real beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unsentimental Journey] Reference

Spitzer clearly can grasp financial complexities and distill them into compelling sound bites.    From Wordnik.com.  [TOP OF HIS GAME] Reference

Obits, like short stories, distill the essence of the dearly departed in sincere, succinct prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serving Up Kisses, Not Feasts] Reference

Lincoln explained: if you distill a fermented mixture of grain, water and yeast, you get whiskey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From America: Bourbon Country] Reference

America's economic strengths lie in qualities that are hard to distill into simple statistics or trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [IT'S SPUTNIK TIME AGAIN] Reference

It's in the self-interest of all enlightened countries to distill, understand and to act on that lesson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growth Is Not Enough] Reference

He takes that same approach here to triple-distill 17 landmark marketing books into a manageable 282 pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quick Read] Reference

They distill the game to its purest elements - hit, pitch, run - and are brutal in their lack of sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Venture Into Baseball 'Fantasyland'] Reference

But take that Norman cider, distill it and let it soften in barrels and you've got calvados, a majestic brandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eating Well in Historic Rouen] Reference

He says her ability to distill a message and directions from a room full of dissenting voices was extraordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Height Dies] Reference

The real challenge was to distill a book with so many beloved scenes and characters into a feature-length script.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heeeeeeere's Harry!] Reference

He held that it was wrong to distill grape or grain products "too far," until there was nothing left but the alcohol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

If the water is very hard, a good plan is to distill it and then add a little of the hard water to the distilled water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

How, they say, can one hope to distill into clear and stable ideas such a vaporous and fleeting matter as Aesthetic feeling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

"Oh, I guess we can manage, with all the apparatus we have, to distill enough water," said Professor Henderson, with a smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference

It was Carson's genius to distill these influences into a nightly routine as ritualized, and comforting, as a religious service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stranger In The Night] Reference

And opponents of the bill try to distill it to its coercive essence by noting that the word shall appeared in it over 3,000 times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey Nunberg: 'The I's Don't Have It'] Reference

You distill your fuel instead of burning it, in fully one-half, might I not say nine-tenths, of existing furnaces and close stoves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference

We sat in silence for a time: it seemed to me that if any one spoke there the very walls of the house would distill sorrowful drops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

Stamp your Roses in a Mortar with a little Rosewater, and then distill them: This way will yield more water by much than the common way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex] Reference