Quotes of: Grain-of-sand Keyword

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering...

Star Maker

Misery, after all, loves company.

A Castle of Sand

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Sand and Foam

The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.

Sand and Foam

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

Sand and Foam

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

Pierre Loti

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Peter O'Toole

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Shelley Morrison

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Sophie Swetchine

When angels carry you they leave no footprints in the sand.

Maria Dorfner

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Ninon de L'Enclos

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

Jenna Karel

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Bradley Chicho

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

Steven Michael Quezada

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

Time

...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...

A Familiar Rain

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Boarded Window

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

The Angel Experiment

One way or another the thing had to die. Perpetual springtime is not allowed. You were not cutting the wood of life according to the grain.

A Severe Mercy

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Michael Dickinson

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Jeremy Rifkin