Sands Quotes
142 Sands quotes by 113 unique authors
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The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil…
— John Hoeven
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I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
— Peter O'Toole
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time.…
— T. Boone Pickens
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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors…
— Mark Twain
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If…
— Paulo Coelho
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened…
— Bob Dylan
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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone…
— Jack Kerouac
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People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.…
— Paulo Coelho
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and…
— Isaac Asimov
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I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant,…
— Paulo Coelho
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide…
— Lewis Carroll
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My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How…
— Robert Burns
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Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
— Bob Dylan
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Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart…
— Loren Eiseley
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The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
— Radclyffe Hall
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains.…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there…
— Amy Carmichael
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The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the…
— Paullina Simons
Who Wrote These Sands Quotes
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