Best Grain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

Source: Selected poems

“If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”

People Ifs Stills Moments Would Be Simple Accepting Gone Goes On Clouds Following Grain Fragments Just Live Mustard

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Ideas Running Values Passing Passings Sand Grain Accumulation Time Passing Time Passes Sidelines Grains Of Sand

Author:Tori Amos

“Beauty alters the grain of reality.”

Reality Grain

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.”

Writing Political Culture Secret Movement Gay Feminist Surface Spheres Grain Notebook Political Movements Secret Places

Author:Cherrie Moraga

“I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.”

Believe I Believe Grows Animal Imagine Source Revolution Fruit Killing Productions Variety Farmers Vegetables Grain Agriculture Humane Health Food Food Production

Book:Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

Source: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

“Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.”

People Giving Made Nations Animal Policy Victim Farmers Grain Feeding Preference Beef Public Policy Hog Cartels Trough

Author:Howard Lyman

“It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.”

People Ifs Years Believe Has Beens Would Be Faces Bits Tree Painting Red Blue Green Impression Insanity Instant Sensations Sanity Laughed Grain Smallest Amusing

Author:Edvard Munch

“Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.”

People Thinking Way Wells Kind Stories Form Acting Existence Fronts Rebellion Grain Telling Stories

Author:John Cusack

“Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn”

People Should Mind Stories Flow Court Hip Hop Rap Grain Mics

Author:Tash

“The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.”

Shows Results Century Late Consequence Contrary Grain 20th Century Famine Shortage Staples Somalia

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.”

People Waiting Business Higher Hungry Grain

Author:Zoroaster

“We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!”

Ifs Men Heart Littles Long Ideas Soul Sea Sky Honest Wind One Day Bird Seven Compare Curse Merit Comparison Why Not Grain Thrill Soar Be A Man Pirate Larceny

Book:Birds in flight

Source: Birds in flight

“There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance.”

Giving Long Whole Would Be White Rich Sky Ready Band Clouds Glasses Bread Fats Golden Drunk Evening Tea Silver Grain Pale Dishes Fragrance Ham Whole Grains Evening Sky

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.”

People Mean War Names Known Rich Five Example Killing Yesterday Miles Pity Civil War Instruction Grain Publish Crushed Comrade Hostage Uprising Telegrams Bloodsuckers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”

Knows Knowledge Beach Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Ivan Panin

“Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Eye Dust Grain Dharma Treasury

Author:Dogen

“Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.”

Wells Tree Errors Giants Grain Poisonous Greenhouses

Book:The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers

Source: The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers

“Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.”

Way Mean Has Beens Ideas Hard Done School Values Fun Secret Teach Creative Keys Elements Flow Core Cash Conventions Grain Virgins Grind Cash Flow Business School

Book:Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

Source: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

“The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.”

Divine Sand Grain Reeds Grains Of Sand

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.”

Sand Grain Smallest Grains Of Sand

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.”

Whole Materials Masters Structure Details Surface Tiny Sensitive Yield Grain Execution

Author:Barbara Hepworth

“Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.”

Inspiration Grows Growing Up Tree Grain Cleverness Mustard

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”

Life Is Our Lives Ocean Sand Infinity Grain Indifferent Grains Of Sand

Book:The Suitcase: A Novel

Source: The Suitcase: A Novel

“I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.”

Too Much Grain

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.”

Hands Return Sand Slips Grain Grains Of Sand

Book:Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.”

Want Heart Self Found Forever Fate Divine Perfection Essence Remains Blow Supreme Satisfied Being Yourself Shock Grain Torment Particles Interrupted

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”

May Earth Turns Summer Spring Winter Autumn Grain Preference Autumn And Winter

Book:Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry

Source: Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry

“As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.”

Men Earth Mother Universe Position Elements Illusion Importance Mere Valuable Tiny Supreme Arrogance Grain Framework Mother Earth Specks Sunbeams

Author:Ernst Haeckel

“Follow the grain in your own wood.”

Woods Grain

Author:Howard Thurman

“The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.”

Men World Humans May Past Evil Human Beings Greater Violence Example Consequence Fellows Lasting Vegetarian Transition Grain Agriculture

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.”

World Earth Grows Space Fields Infinite Absurd Aliens Aviation Grain Predictions Ufo Infinite Space Alien Life

Author:Metrodorus of Chios

“If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.”

People Ifs Knows Color Salt Grain Rude Grain Of Salt

Author:Chris Daughtry

“In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.”

I Can Stuff Can Do Vegetables Grain Delicious Mexican Beans I Can Do This

Author:Rick Bayless

“A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.”

Problem Education Knowledge Discovery Logic Mathematics Solve Math Grain Problem Solving Math Education Solved Problems Math Problems Great Math

Book:How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method

Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method

“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.”

Source: The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad

“Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.”

Humans Black Human Beings Animal Known Civilization West South Rational Dumb Grain Caves Herbs Unprepared West Africa Thickets

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.”

“All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.”

People Play Able Chance Environment Producers Grain Take A Chance

Author:Matthew Ashford

“Diet is a big thing. I am a firm believer in you are what you eat. I juice a lot, I try and stick to a Paleo Diet. At its core, I look at MS as inflammation, so I try and eliminate foods that cause inflammation: dairy, gluten, grains.”

Trying Looks Bigs Causes Sticks Believer Core Firm Diets Grain Big Things Juice Dairy Gluten Paleo Diet

Author:Jack Osbourne

“It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.”

Oneself Grain Steel Deep Within Dig Deep

Author:Ryan Shay

“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”

Stories Hands Next Generations Block Sand Grain Next Generation Grains Of Sand Brushing

Author:Raquel Cepeda

“To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.”

World Country Bears Kings Soil Taoism Misfortunes Grain Disgrace Shrines

Author:Laozi

“Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.”

Children Hands Young Left Grows Wife Produce South Farmers Grain Australian Victoria

Book:Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

“We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.”

Knows Wells May Accepting Vision Land Seeds Grain Harvest Reap Successors

Book:York State Rural Problems

Source: York State Rural Problems

“The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.”

Looks Waiting Wind Fingers Sand Grain Escaping Vanishing Grains Of Sand

Author:Fábio Moon

“Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.”

World Heart Light Lying Sun Thousand Ocean Hundred Mirrors Seeds Sand Atoms Grain Particles Raindrops Grains Of Sand

Author:Mahmud Shabistari

“But all the vitamins, amino acids, protein etc. needed to get stronger can be found in abundance in plant foods. Anything that is a fruit, nut, grain or seed is vegan and there are thousands of those.”

Found Needed Stronger Plant Fruit Seeds Abundance Etc Vegan Nuts Grain Acid Protein Vitamins Amino Acids

Author:Robert Cheeke

“Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?”

Thinking Feels Years Looks Body Care Energy Half Take Care Your Body Feel Good Meat Vegetarian Vegan Vegetables Grain Vegetarianism Vegetarian Health Half A Year I Feel Good

Author:Traci Bingham

“Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.”

People Pay Meat Vegetarian Grain Better Off Shrinks Vegetarianism

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

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