Dust Quotes - Page 15

• Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waits
  To bear thee to the battle back;--
  Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,--
  Thy dog would break thy bivouac;
  Thy plume is trailing in the dust,
  And thy red falchion gathering rust.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Dog, Horse, War

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1866). “The Poems of Thomas Kibble Hervey”, p.36

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• There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lilies, Evolution, Unfolding

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Humble, Self, Forever

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Soul, Elements

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• Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
  O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Epitaph On A Jacobite”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pride, Men, Doubt

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• The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

  E. B. White

  New York, Eye, Missing

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• Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

  John Hodgman

  Smart, Criticism, Dry

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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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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• 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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