Sand Quotes - Page 6

• Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

  William Morris Hunt

  Beauty, Pieces, Paper

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• The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Water, Bird

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.

  Gabriel Macht

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

  Susan Griffin

  Museums, Meditation, Painting

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Foundation, Christ, Eternity

  Robert Stuart MacArthur (1890). “The Calvary Pulpit: Christ and Him Crucified”

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• The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Selfish, Cutting, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 537), 1895.

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• We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Past, Ideas

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough”, p.560

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• Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

  John Muir

  Stars, Animal, Cities

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• The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.

  John Muir

  Morning, Stars, Moving

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.203, The Mountaineers Books

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• Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Adversity, Looks, Tides

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• The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Country, Cancer

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• It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

  Dennis Lindley

  Talking, Law, Doe

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 19), 2006.

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• That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

  Pamela Moore

  Castles, Hell, Impermanence

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• It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

  Goldie

  Laughter, Children, Color

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Long, Keystone Pipeline

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• The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, Drawing, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.10, Criss Jami

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• Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Lying, Men, Desert

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• Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Son, Men

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• There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, People, Heroism

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 100, 1933.

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• Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

  Basil Bunting

  Silly, Wind, Doom

  1925 Villon, pt.1.

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• Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sea, Smell, Dwelling

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

  David

  Numbers, Should, Thee

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• A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sorrow, Stones, Way

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• Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Adversity, Track

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• The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

  Jonathan Alter

  Ideas, House, Done

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