There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and… — William Davis Copy Share Image
Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
