“ Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. ”
- Thomas Jones- Copy
- 3.3K
“ One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. ”
- Adelaide Proctor- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 4K
“ The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run. ”
- Marquis de Racan- Copy
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“ The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 4K
“ To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Money is like sand, it can wash away. But, passion is innate and enduring. ”
- Steve Haile- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 4K
“ They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ”
- Edward Lear- Copy
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“ As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. ”
- Robert Wise- Copy
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“ When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ Hollywood is just too marvelous. One feels the footprints of all the immortals are here, but has a terrible feeling that they are in sand and won't last when civilization comes this way. ”
- James Whale- Copy
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“ Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. ”
- Hester Piozzi Thrale- Copy
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“ The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”
- Robert Service- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 223
“ Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
- 2.2K
“ When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. ”
- The Work of the Chariot- Copy
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