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“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.”

Shows Three Trouble Television News Instruments Radio Profession Advertising Dust Journalism Combination Settling Roof Bizarre Show Business Never Settle Television News

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.”

Want Long Guy Waiting Ready Needed Dust Going Away Busters

Author:Maxine

“Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.”

Today Asks Flower Tomorrow Rain Garden Rose Yesterday Dust Vain Sunshine Dew

Author:Christina Rossetti

“It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.”

Whole Body Eye Literature Sight Miracle Breaths Drawing Dust

Book:Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition

Source: Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition

“The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.”

Age Dark Cities Streets Modern Medical Noise Dust Toxic Coal Torn Dark Ages Gasoline Narrow Streets

Author:Alexis Carrel

“And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.”

Men Church Flower Noble Dust Yards Nobility

Author:John Donne

“Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.”

People Said Age Remember Loses Millions Courage Politician Solve Dust Ice Coal Arctic Chatter Ice Age

Author:Don Young

“The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.”

Made States Hands Poor Fate Blood Kings Equal Glory Shadow Down And Lays Dust Crowns Crooked Icy Armour Spades Scythes

Author:James Shirley

“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.”

Political Names Party Ought Dust Political Parties Condemnation Pumpkin Bland

Author:Richard P. Bland

“There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.”

Principles Clear Air Danger Industry Intelligent Dust

Book:Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.

Source: Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.

“It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.”

People Ifs Doe Fall Class Struggle China Dust Organize Sweeping Reactionaries Class Struggle Brooms

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.”

Forget Sadness Minutes Sad Valuable Dust Permanent Ties Mourning Undoing

Author:Margery Allingham

“Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I will be with you.' I cried, 'Lord, I will go. Where shall I go?' And Jesus said, 'Go here, go there, wherever souls are perishing.' Praise the Lord for his wonderful goodness in revealing his word and will in such a wonderful way, to such a poor weak worm of the dust. I saw more in that vision than I could have learned in years of hard study. Praise His Holy Name. I saw that I must not depend on anything that I could do, but to look to Him for strength and wisdom.”

“We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we see the vessels at sea driven swiftly towards their ports; but the wind itself remains invisible. Just so with the Spirit; we feel His breath upon our souls, we see the mighty things He does, but Himself we do not see. He is invisible, but He is real and perceptible.”

Feels Doe Real Soul Spirit Sea Wind Breaths Remains Driven Invisible Dust Cheeks Vessel Port

Author:R. A. Torrey

“A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

“Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Self Philosophy Whole Greater Difficulty Raised Philosopher Math Complaining Dust Amused Blocked Owing

Author:George Berkeley

“... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.”

“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?”

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.”

History Dust Defeated Woe Woe Unto

Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

“Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.”

Should Littles Used Saws Mankind Strange Species Various Dust Substance Mushrooms Seasoning Condiments

Author:William Alcott

“You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust”

Beautiful Dust Beautiful Things

Author:Michael Gungor

“Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.”

Men Stories Air Mark Rose Dust Old Man Ashes Sleeves Suspended

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.”

Flying Dust Falsehood Controversy

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.”

Would Be Flow Dust Masterpiece Disintegration

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.”

Heart Dust Thick Ache

Book:The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

Source: The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

“When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.”

Rooms Study Taken Air Special Clothes Dust Substance Precaution Marie

Author:Marie Curie

“With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.”

Years Firsts Hands Light Sides Doors Air Rocks Broken Wall Stones Difficulty Obstacles Teeth Dust Contemplating Nails Thirst Pauses Cracked Advancing Unsure Smashing Drilling

Author:Octavio Paz

“It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.”

Source: We: New Edition

“This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.”

Moving Dust Fog Apollo Landing Star Gazing

Book:First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story

Source: First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story

“People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?”

People Evil Feet One Day Wings Faults Dust One Day At A Time

Book:Plays Four

Source: Plays Four

“I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.”

Giving Feels Years Has Beens Character Desire Three Novel Written Pride Periods Sitting Decided Give Me Prejudice Series Males Obsession Dust Not Sure Three Years Intrigued Drawers Darcy

Author:Victoria Chang

“Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no holy wings: It stands with honest feet in honest dust, And is the body's blossoming in clear air Of trustfulness and joyance when alone Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair And claim that Paradise which is their own. Amid a universe of sweat and blood, Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate, Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood Of the loud world, in secret ere too late A gentle sacrament may celebrate Before their private altar of the good.”

“The very first as a cardinal rule for a person to build trust is to do must only that what is humanly just as that helps to wipe and wither away those parasitic people stuck to his life as dirt and dust.”

People Firsts Persons Helping Stuck Dust Dirt Wipe Cardinals Cardinal Rules

Author:Anuj

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

Use Excuse Dust

Book:Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You

Source: Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You

“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”

Life Is Hours Our Lives Tales Dust Shade Morrow

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.”

Men Stills Cases Sea He Man Circumstances Battle Clothes Clean Dust Customs Covered Wounded Coal Naval Maritime Clean Clothes

Book:Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century

Source: Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century

“The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.”

Heaven Dust

Book:The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.”

Bones Dust Desert Arizona

Author:Vera Nazarian

“If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.”

Ifs God Light Able Earth Dust

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.”

Trying Littles Book Would Be Age Evil Wish White Hell Special Difficulty Leaving Wounds Dust Rip Inventor Sticker Slime Fluff Booksellers Scabs Gummies

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.”

Beautiful Beauty Eternal Reflection Passing Passings Dust Marvelous Handful Skulls Fugitive Helen Toothless Helen Of Troy

Author:Eliphas Levi

“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”

Beauty Dust Everlasting

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”

Ifs World Humans May Children Play Earth Moving Mother Loses Pleasure Common Steps Gains Fairs Dresses Rounds Dust Chains Human Life Necks Bondage Every Step Entrances Robes Hamper

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.”

“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.”

Men Believe Death Dust Atoms Grain

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.”

Race Magic Civilization Silent Dust Buried Delicate Abomination Magic Of Life

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.”

Writing Has Beens War Stories Body Eye Earth Kings Sorrow Paper Graves Ghost Dust Hats Worms Bosoms Rainy Epitaph Sad Story

Author:William Shakespeare

“Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.”

“A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.”

People World Littles Doe Said Self Eye Holy Safe Forests Dust Bows Tolerate Monk Unbearable Robes

Author:Tim Ward

“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.”

Want Whole Moving Interest Steps Progress Air Society Bigger Bounds Obstacles Scales Moving Forward Dust Remove Steps Forward Vested Interests

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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