Grinds Quotes

41 Grinds quotes by 37 unique authors

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
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
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
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. — Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. — Art Blakey
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
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. — George Herbert
We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. — Jan Peter Balkenende
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
God grinds the axes he intends to use. — Dave Sim
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function. — Unknown Author
Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds — Elspeth Huxley
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
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
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley
Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. — Ted Dexter
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain,… — H. P. Blavatsky
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. — Gertrude Stein
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes… — May Sarton

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