Dust Quotes - Page 17

• The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

  Ari Fleischer

  Settling, Things To Do, Right Thing

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2014

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• History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Patterns, Neat, Refuge

  Melvyn Bragg (2013). “The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Staying far never breaks relation, staying near never builds relation. Its a link between hearts, which never allows us to forget each other. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

  Elinor Glyn

  Heart, Romance, Everyday

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• We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Umpires, Tolerance

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

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• Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Memories, Soul

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• A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

  John Milton

  Stars, Gold, Way

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.275

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• In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Romance, Occasional, Budgets

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.49, Booklassic

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• If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

  William Zinsser

  Want, Ifs, Loses

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• The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Wind, Battle

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• If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Disease, God Image

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• Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Wise, Wall, Cutting

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Land, Snakes

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.

  Steven Dietz

  Names, Together, Makers

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold dust. I mean, not necessarily stylistically, because everyone is different in what their music sounds like, but the approach and how to look at a film, how to think about a film, how to decide what you want to do, how to think about characters, how to think about art, how to think about narrative, how to liaise with producers, how to liaise with directors.

  Henry Jackman

  Art, Character, Mean

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• Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

  Louis L'Amour

  Blood, Trails

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Daybreakers”, p.175, Bantam

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• I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust.

  Larry Burkett

  Car, Turns

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• For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Clouds, Three

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Ashes, Noses

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Complaining, Kicking

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• I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Storm, Rabbits, Dust Storms

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• I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.

  Nick Hornby

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.57, Penguin

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• A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Cutting, Men, Land

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• Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

  David Tennant

  Way, Gothic, Freak

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• If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Blessed, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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