Dust Quotes - Page 11

• A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.188

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• Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Sleep, Men, Names

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• Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust
  March with its peck of dust,
  Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
  Nor even May, whose flowers
  One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Flower, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2012). “Goblin Market and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Jewels, Water, Abuse

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

  Joseph Hertz

  Men, Overcoming, Sin

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs". Edited by Joseph H. Hertz, Genesis II, 7 (p. 7), 1937.

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• Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Knowledge, Doe, Sticks

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.64

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• Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

  Willis Regier

  Book, Encounters, Treasure

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• As ye of clay were cast by kind,
  So shall ye waste to dust.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Clay, Waste, Kind

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
  When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
  And that her lips are dust.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Heart, Sorrow, Lips

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• Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

  Mortimer Wheeler

  Blow, Archaeology

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• As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

  Ramakrishna

  Feet, Specks, Devotee

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Men, Light

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Moving, Wish

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “Sermons”, p.81

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• Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doe, Slavery, Slime

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.233, Graphic Arts Books

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• If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Moon, Destiny

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142

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• Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Moving, Men

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• Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Sex, Dirty

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• Yesterday's dust
  determined
  today's range of vision

  Mario

  Yesterday, Vision, Today

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• Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Wind

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1036, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Wife, Pieces

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

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• If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Writing, Men, Symphony

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

  George Hickenlooper

  Going Away, Doe, Arcs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

  Kenny Chesney

  Trying, Wire, Wake Up

  "Spiritual side of Kenny Chesney". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2013.

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• As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

  H. G. Wells

  Mean, Air, Years

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3227, e-artnow

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• Life is too short to dust every week.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Life Is Too Short, Week, Life Is

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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