Grind Quotes

265 quotes by 224 authors

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we… — Kathleen Norris
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books… — Oscar Wilde
But the grind has begun. The windows donâ€™t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide… — Dave Eggers
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… — Thomas Pynchon
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world… — Florence Nightingale
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes… — May Sarton
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all… — Chuck Palahniuk
Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon. — Matsuo Basho
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your… — Warren Ellis
In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct.… — Michael Connelly
His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But,… — Ken Kesey
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral… — Emily Bronte
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. — Audre Lorde
He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such… — Hermann Hesse
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps… — Catherynne M. Valente
Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is… — Scott Westerfeld

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