Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

Isaac Asimov

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

Isaac Asimov

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

Francisco de Quevedo

I will be dust, but dust in love

Horace

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

Phillip Fulmer

If I could sprinkle magic dust on it, heck, I'd fix it.

H. G. Wells

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Huston Smith

We are a blend of dust and divinity.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him. We talked. He said he didn't mean it like it sounded. It wasn't that I was (angry), but I was sad because I've known Dusty since I was 2.

It comes with three attachments, one for mattress cleaning, one for dust brush, and a crevice-cleaning tool.

Walt Disney

Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.

Michael Buckley

Once the dust settles, we're going to see a big increase.

Francis Bacon

It was prettily devised of Aesop, ""The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

It's the first time in years I saw some dust in the infield on the first day of practice. A lot of teams are going to be in much better shape when the season starts and not as far behind.

Kenny Chesney

When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

Julia Ward Howe

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

Muhammad Iqbal

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Naomi Shihab Nye

We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.

Lauren Oliver

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Margaret Atwood

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

Paulo Coelho

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Phoebe Cary

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight.

Mother Teresa

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

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

Leonard Cohen

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.

Karen Hesse

When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.

Karen Hesse

Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Elizabeth George

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.