Grinds Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
— Emily Bronte
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out…
— Thomas Huxley
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
— Victor LaValle
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No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds…
— Miley Cyrus
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to…
— Carl Sagan
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
— Khalil Gibran
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A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
— Trevor Baylis
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
— Art Blakey
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It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to…
— Scott Simon
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God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
— George Herbert
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We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down,…
— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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God grinds the axes he intends to use.
— Dave Sim
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When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
— Ken Knabb
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Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds
— Elspeth Huxley
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When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the…
— Wes Fesler
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The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as…
— Jacques Barzun
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
— Thomas Huxley
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
— Ted Dexter
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