You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains. — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug… — Tash Copy Share Image
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. — Dogen Copy Share Image
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine Copy Share Image
The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho'… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet 1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods 2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
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