Straws Quotes

35 Straws quotes by 32 unique authors

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
Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves. — Robert Kiyosaki
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
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. — John Dryden
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
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
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers. — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup — Tyler The Creator
There will grow from straws a mighty heap. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... — Robert E. Howard
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
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws. — Charles Bukowski
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer — Saint Augustine
I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening… — Sarah Dessen
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
Give that man a Pixy Stix," Haddie said. "A what?" Lucia asked. "Hold on." She left then returned a moment later with a handful of… — Ellen Potter
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? — Tom Stoppard
A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only… — Melchor Lim

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