Grinding Quotes
112 Grinding quotes by 100 unique authors
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Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of…
— Charles Brent
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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of…
— Robert E. Howard
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We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding…
— Jeremiah
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My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.
— Kevin Gates
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He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns…
— James Freeman Clarke
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I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I…
— Sloane Crosley
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
— Charles Darwin
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
— Charles Darwin
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A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a…
— Bobby Flay
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
— Robert Harris
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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
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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
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I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
— Lee Trevino
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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
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
— Leonard Cohen
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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
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He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...
— David Sheff
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Grinding Quotes
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