Grinding Quotes

112 quotes by 100 authors

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the… — Hedy Lamarr
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of… — Barack Obama
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. — Lee Trevino
It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But… — Johnny Weir
ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars — Leonard Cohen
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… — Mark Twain
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. — Kurt Vonnegut
In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On… — Charles Baudelaire
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If… — Ayn Rand
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the… — Anthony Burgess
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
I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry... — David Sheff
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with… — Rebecca Solnit
I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement? At least it takes some… — Emma Forrest
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently… — Boris Pasternak
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter… — N.D. Wilson
Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no… — Elizabeth Hoyt
Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather… — Jonathan Maberry

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