Grinds Quotes
41 Grinds quotes by 37 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...
— Henrik Ibsen
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What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how…
— Chris Colfer
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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
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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
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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
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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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
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Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.
— Elspeth Huxley
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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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We need to continue walking in the so called road of life,no matter how hard,difficult,full of ups and down the grinds are ,somewhere before the…
— Drnumer Alcardejr
Who Wrote These Grinds Quotes
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