Grinds Quotes

41 quotes by 37 authors

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
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps… — Catherynne M. Valente
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to… — Annie Dillard
Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castlesâ€”and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate… — Catherynne M. Valente
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ... — Henrik Ibsen
What grinds me the most is that weâ€™re sending kids out into the world who donâ€™t know how to balance a checkbook, donâ€™t know how… — Chris Colfer
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg… — Agnes de Mille
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the… — Francis Darwin
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind… — James Thomson
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not… — Vikram Seth
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings
Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. — Elspeth Huxley
I'm aligned with a gift/subscribed without a script/times just stay ruff like cracked whips that's why cars is called this/the bling hurts your eyes then… — C-DASH

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