Grinding Quotes

112 quotes by 103 authors

I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder… — Gregory Galloway
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore… — Mark Slouka
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. — Ken Kesey
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,… — Sara Teasdale
The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get… — Dan Uggla
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. — Henry Ward Beecher
Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came… — Paul Rusesabagina
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product… — Bill Gaede
When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose. — Steven Pressfield
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and… — Dalai Lama
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the… — James Otis
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football. — Brett Finch
Without a doubt, the next few minutes would be the most hellishly exciting in my life. Grinding pain and killer fatigue waited just beyond the… — Brad Alan Lewis
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like… — Cory Doctorow
Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!! — Eric Thomas
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens. — Jerry Pournelle

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