One Grain Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
— John Dryden
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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: