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
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world. — Robert M. Pirsig 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
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart… — Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being… — Charles Dickens 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
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
Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain… — Yotam Ottolenghi 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
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done… — Eric Maisel 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
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
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of… — Jonathan Sacks 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
When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates,… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening… — Micha Bar-Am 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
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
