One Grain Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

• Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
• To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet,… — Metrodorus of Chios
• According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000… — Richard Armitage
• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. — Ursula K. Le Guin
• a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain… — Jenny Downham
• But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed… — Leo Tolstoy
• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is… — Margaret Fuller
• Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I… — Daniel Keyes
• Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all… — Dale Carnegie
• Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden
• A lifetime is not a second, not a minute, nor a hour. A lifetime is not a day, or a week, month, or year. A… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler

Who Wrote These One Grain Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 One Grain Quotes as follows:

• 2 One Grain Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 One Grain Quote by Daniel Keyes
• 1 One Grain Quote by Dale Carnegie
• 1 One Grain Quote by John Dryden
• 1 One Grain Quote by Eugene Nathaniel Butler
• 1 One Grain Quote by Anatole France
• 1 One Grain Quote by Metrodorus of Chios
• 1 One Grain Quote by Richard Armitage
• 1 One Grain Quote by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• 1 One Grain Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1 One Grain Quote by Jenny Downham
• 1 One Grain Quote by Leo Tolstoy
• 1 One Grain Quote by Margaret Fuller