Best Dust Lines
1193 Dust quotes by 849 unique authors
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You…
— Roz Chast
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Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get…
— Dorianne Laux
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There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever…
— Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Just like dust, we settle in this town.
— Kacey Musgraves
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When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart…
— Tom Waits
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I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot…
— Ivor Cutler
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Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and…
— Rajneesh
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History is a great dust heap.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying…
— Samuel Adams
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Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.
— Terry Pratchett
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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
— Thomas Gray
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
— Will Durant
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any…
— Walt Whitman
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Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity,…
— Joy Harjo
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on,…
— Napoleon Hill
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The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have…
— Osama bin Laden
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There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red…
— Sarah Hall
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...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk…
— Ginni Rometty
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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader.…
— Newell Dwight Hillis
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Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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