Dust Quotes

1193 Dust quotes by 849 unique authors

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which… — John Milton
Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay,… — Swami Vivekananda
Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by. — Kurt Vonnegut
We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But… — Deena Metzger
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always… — Rajneesh
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. — William Wordsworth
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I… — Catherynne M. Valente
Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities to God are consigned to the dust bin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic… — Ronald Reagan
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… — Robert Neelly Bellah
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in… — Thomas More
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is… — Sue Monk Kidd
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine… — Moliere
We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome. — A.S. King
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. — Ray Kurzweil
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes… — Rick Moody
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust. — Peter Gabriel
The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again… — Stephen Levine
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out… — E. M. Forster
Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is… — Swami Vivekananda
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth.… — Erica Jong
Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. — Walter Scott
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold. — Unknown Author
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean… — Paulo Coelho
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. — Charles Spurgeon

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