Grain Quotes

495 quotes by 422 authors

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of… — Lord Acton
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God… — Annie Besant
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity… — William Blake
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in… — F. F. Bruce
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. — Michel de Montaigne
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old… — Stephen King
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds… — Robert R. McCammon
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these… — Henri Poincare
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one… — Thomas Jones
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists… — Frederic Bastiat
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… — Frederic Bastiat
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make… — Saadi
... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not… — Thomas Huxley

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