Sands Quotes
142 quotes by 113 authors
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For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of…
— Seth Lloyd
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
— Solomon Burke
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If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the…
— Amy Carmichael
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands…
— John Milton
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret…
— Homer
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the…
— Colonel Sanders
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
— Jeff Goodell
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At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.
— Thomas H. Cook
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Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a…
— Rick Perry
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If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your…
— Al Stewart
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The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan...
— Rosita Forbes
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The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would…
— James Hansen
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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like…
— H.G. Wells
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
— Charles Kingsley
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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows…
— William Blake
Who Wrote These Sands Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 142 Sands Quotes, led by these top contributors: