Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The April rain, the April rain, Comes slanting down in fitful showers, Then from the furrow shoots the grain, And banks are… — Mathilde Blind Copy Share Image
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If you have created the fifth generation of atomic bombs and are testing them already, what position are you in to question… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place… — Dwayne Andreas Copy Share Image
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at… — Mort Crim Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I literally went cold turkey on carbs, didn't have a grain of rice. No pasta, no bread, no booze - I didn't… — Guy Sebastian 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
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still...… — Mickey Spillane 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
The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew,… — Olav H. Hauge Copy Share Image
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