Dust Quotes - Page 11

• All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Way, Windy

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Sparks, Hell

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Cutting, Flesh, Woods

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

  Bodhidharma

  Affliction, Shapes, Form

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.109, Macmillan

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• All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Dry

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

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• I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Feet, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Truth, Humble

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• Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Scientist, Particles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dark, Moon, Rocks

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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