Grinding Quotes

112 quotes by 104 authors

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a… — Ernest K. Gann
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did… — Michael Crichton
You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor. — Craig Ferguson
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be… — Stanley Ellin
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was… — Emile Hirsch
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. — Keith Richards
Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if… — Andy Roddick
I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so… — Charles M. Schulz
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. — Alan Bennett
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them… — Brenda Ueland
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within… — Heber J. Grant
Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, weâ€™ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we donâ€™t believe in the… — Caitlin Moran
You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually. — Annika Sorenstam
The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding… — John Golden
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything… — Alexander Masters

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