Dust Quotes

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

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• Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

  Elinor Glyn

  Love, Romantic, Boyfriend

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Ties, Mourning

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• There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

  Glen Cook

  Dream, Once Upon A Time, Youth

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Soul, Purpose

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• The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Intangible Quality, Rainbow

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• I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

  Peter Tosh

  Picks

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• Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, Dance

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Distance, Clouds

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• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Art, Civilization, Long

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Texas, Small Business, Enron

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Names, Literature

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• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  George Carlin

  Futility Of Life, Trying, Example

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Fear, Atheism

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

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• We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Inspirational, Complaining, Firsts

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• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Fire, Brotherhood

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• As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Real, Men, Preparation

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• What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

  Salvador Dali

  Dream, Wall, Eye

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• I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Perfect, Survivor, Down And

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• Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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• It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Other Worlds

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• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Time, Blow, Watches

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