Grain Quotes · Page 4

It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.

— Hope Solo

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

— Alfred Rupert Hall

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

— C. S. Lewis

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

— Sergei Dovlatov

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

— Chamillionaire

“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

— Charles Spurgeon

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

— Drake

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

— Chris Daughtry

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and…

— Austin O'Malley

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name…

— Virginia Woolf

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

— Jane Hirshfield

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

— John Arbuthnot

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes…

— Joseph Addison

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread,…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears…

— Anonymous

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of…

— John Cusack

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy…

— Fred Rogers

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but…

— Catherine Helen Spence

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she…

— Charles J. Shields

Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam,…

— Kaspar Hauser

History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the…

— Han Suyin

The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran:…

— Francis Quarles

I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that…

— Richard Siken

Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans…

— Ibn Khaldun

The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel…

— Jack Weatherford

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow…

— Jeremy Bentham

A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and…

— Anonymous

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It…

— Terry Crews

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

— Margaret Mead

“Always judge a book by it's cover! Go against the grain!”

— TheBook Crew

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

— Richard Mottram

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

— Rumi

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

— Bell Hooks

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

— Khalil