Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Muhammad Iqbal

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

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.

Mark Hanna

Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

Naomi Shihab Nye

We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.

R. C. Sproul

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

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.

George Herbert

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Ken Wilber

The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

Julia Ward Howe

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Huston Smith

We are a blend of dust and divinity.

Candice Millard

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Now is the time for folks in South Florida to get their hurricane plan back out and dust it off, because the season's not over. Unless the storm just gets torn apart, a landfall somewhere on the Florida peninsula seems fairly likely by Saturday.

A number of people were looking for the good news that occurred, ... When the dust settles, people also say, history argues for the market going up. So people who may have been inclined to sell just don't.

Lord Byron

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust

Jason Davis

You've got to step your game up and be ready. In Game One of a series, you want to do all you can to give your team that edge. (Catcher) Dusty Wathan did a great job and I just relaxed and tried to keep hitting the strike zone.

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

As dust a steed did she, as soon as she was born, scatter these people, that dwelt upon the earth, she the lovely one, the leader, the guardian of the world, that holds the trees and plants.

Laura Davies

They don't seem to have quite the fun we have. On paper, they're a better team, and we still dust them the first two days.

They don't seem to have quite the fun we have. Maybe they do. On paper, they're a better team, and we still dust them the first two days. It has to be something we do right leading up to the foursomes.

Hans Christian Andersen

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Herman Cain

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

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.]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Evelyn Waugh

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.