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 wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave… — Barbara De Angelis 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
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians… — John Perry Barlow 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
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
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
Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen 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
No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders… — Vallabhbhai Patel Copy Share Image
You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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
The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes… — Cher Copy Share Image
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That… — Anne-Marie Duff 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
