Straws Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these…
— John Vianney
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Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
— John Dryden
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Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on…
— Jennifer Echols
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I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with…
— Warren Buffett
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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored…
— Alex Gaskarth
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A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup
— Tyler, The Creator
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There will grow from straws a mighty heap.
— Ovid
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When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
— Idries Shah
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A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a…
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
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I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got…
— Vera Farmiga
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor…
— Alexander Pope
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...
— Robert E. Howard
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Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface…
— John Dryden
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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
— Charles Bukowski
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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
— Saint Augustine
Who Wrote These Straws Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 35 Straws Quotes, led by these top contributors: