Grain Quotes - Page 26

• Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

  Maxine

  Grain Of Salt, Margarita, Accompany

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• According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.

  Richard Armitage

  Ideas, Iraq, Special

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• Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

  Mark Sisson

  Giving Up, Health, Inspire

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• The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

  Homer

  Men, Light, Sea

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Butterfly, Bird, Together

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Weed, Making A Difference, Thorns

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Effort, Groups

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• In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

  Arthur Machen

  Stars, Lying, Soul

  Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.102, 谷月社

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• In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

  Jorge Cruise

  Our World, Black, Weight

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• There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Believe, Men

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Good Life, Action, Good Work

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• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Weight, Lessons, Execution

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• To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Reform, Speak

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1692, Delphi Classics

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• I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Eight, Mad

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• Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Russia, Energy, World

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• The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

  Idries Shah

  Wish, Foxes, Chickens

  Idries Shah (1991). “The Magic Monastery: Analogical and Action Philosophy of the Middle East and Central Asia”, p.167, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

  Willa Cather

  Light, Two, Ears

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Usual, Storytelling

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.

  Will Tuttle

  Caring, Animal, Ecosystems

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.145, Lantern Books

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• Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Opportunity, Roots

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• Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Life Is Like, Wheat

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• Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Ideas, Understanding, Suffering

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• From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Beach, Reality, World

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• Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

  Roger Williams

  World, Dear, Whole

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.9

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