Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Jane Hirshfield

I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come back with me from these travels.But I must trust that I will not treat frivolously the glimpses I've been given into other places and others' lives.

Bodhidharma

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.

Dionne Warwick

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.

Steve Staunton

We all felt the huge disappointment for not qualifying for Germany. Now we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and look forward rather than back.

Robert Kiyosaki

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Document, document, document. That's the only thing that's going to be there when the dust has settled.

We're going to wipe that surface down and get all that residual dust off of there.

When all the dust settled the parties agreed.

Aesop

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

Alexander Pope

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

E. O. Wilson

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

Douglas MacArthur

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Dorothy Fields

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

Desmond Tutu

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Andrei Platonov

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

Anne Bronte

But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

D. H. Lawrence

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

Alice Sebold

When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

Alice Cooper

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

Amy Tan

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

Andy Stanley

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

We have nowhere to go but up. Everybody realizes that. The quicker we dust ourselves off and start running again, the better our hockey team?s going to be. Are people (ticked) off? Yeah, they?re pretty (ticked) off.

Craig Shoemaker

We'll have a big threat from the dust storms this spring. Last year of course, was a short monsoon season and it was late starting.

Thomas de Quincey

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

T. S. Eliot

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Ray Kurzweil

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Rick Riordan

Imagine your body replaced by dust and vapor, and having a tingly feeling in your stomach without even having a stomach. Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing into nothing. I got so angry, a flash of lightning crackled inside me. “Don’t be that way,” Amos chuckled. “It’s only for a few minutes.