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“There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.”

Ifs Heart Made Soul Ends Lying Speak Water Sun Forever Pieces Air Sweet Glory Shining Bitter Smoke Fixed Sand Sullen

Book:The divine comedy

Source: The divine comedy

“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

“The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women's voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.”

Beautiful Faces Three Voice Rich Fashion Bird Lips Related Sand Breasts Vague Severe Observers Casual Bittersweet

Author:Ekaterina Sedia

“A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.”

Country Whole Names Knowing Sky Wind Bird Ears Storm Rings Desert Sand Grain Crossings Exotic Crooks Grains Of Sand Birdsong

Author:Sijie Dai

“When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.”

“This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.”

Ifs Want Wells May Long Shows Minutes Objects Understood Letters Distance Incredibles Size Seeds Sand Smallest Small Things Long Distance Optics

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“I walked in a desert. And I cried, ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’ I cried, ‘Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’”

Wells Said Voice Desert Heat Sand Horizon Take Me Cried Vacant

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.”

Universe Sand Handful Anthology

Author:David McCord

“Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.”

Life Is Harmony Profound Vices Desert Sand Unpredictable Shifting Vice Versa Esoteric Dissonance Erratic Shifting Sand Sand Dunes

Author:Ella Leya

“I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Fear Water Wife Drink Bills Alcohol Sand Boss Literal Compounds Dentist Gasoline Blazing Slang Bonfire Anesthetics

Author:Cornell Woolrich

“The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.”

Source: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK

“God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God’s merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.”

Source: A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living

“Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.”

Source: Back on the Fire: Essays

“Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.”

World Looks Book Serious Happenings Wake Up Passionate Sand Compliment Wake Up Call Polemics Alberta Serious Look

Author:Margaret MacMillan

“Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.”

Mines Gold Sand Pearls

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.”

Ifs Spirit Religion Spirituality Wind Rain All Things Seasons Sand Thunder Reminding Respect Yourself

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.”

Sound Hours Sun Sea Sky Land Scene Singing Bird Letters South Gentle Heat Sand Shells Insects Visitors Appreciative

Author:E. B. White

“And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?”

Knows Should Running Beautiful Water Nature Levels Journey Sea Rose Ignorant Release Burning Desert Streams Sand Valleys Wheat Cotton Lullaby

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.”

Mind Body Natural Therapy Sand Sunshine Mind And Body Surf Recuperation

Book:Dupain's beaches

Source: Dupain's beaches

“I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.”

Thinking Men Writing Political Sea Building Notes Drawing Absurd Sand Delivering Utterance Puzzled Pretence Pantheon Political Writing

Book:Force and Ideas: The Early Writings

Source: Force and Ideas: The Early Writings

“Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.”

Writing Mind Wells Creative Talent Genius Sand Grain Pearls Shifting Creative Mind Talent And Genius

Author:Truman Capote

“Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.”

Lasts Young Lines Sky Land Figures Moon Waste Lows Wave Evening Fallen Sand Silver Pool Tides Pale Grey Embedded Rims

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“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.”

Moments Time Fall Strive All Time Sand

Book:Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

“Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.”

Life Is Hope House Wind Built Weak Wine Sand Mortality Fabric Fabric Of Life

Author:Hafez

“Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.”

Men May Together Judgment Lifts Sand Rejects Sugar Grain Ants Pious

Author:Ramakrishna

“Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.”

“There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.”

Years Littles Hands Artist Left White Four Achievement Hundred Years Ago Garden Stones Patterns Spread Sand Lasting Neglect Controlled Composition Left Alone Skeletons Moss White Sand

Author:Russell Page

“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.”

Spiritual Spirit Dust Sand Goddess Grain Specks Grains Of Sand Uncompromising

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

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

“One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.”

“Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.”

Lasts Wind Hollywood Blow Studios Sand Egypt Pyramids Props Crumbling

Author:David O. Selznick

“Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.”

Men Has Beens War Would Be Sex Views Mistake Situation Missing Males Currents Shooting Sand Bullets Burying Current Situation

Author:Warren Farrell

“Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.”

Mean Sand

Author:Eric Bana

“I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.”

Wells Kind Different Running Exercise Training Beach Sand Different Kinds

Author:Charlie Bewley

“I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.”

Father Taken Fire Childhood Minutes Summer Treasure Sand Buried Outsiders Pulling Yards Digging Buried Treasure Fire Escapes Sunbathing

Author:Jennifer Egan

“All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

Heart Long Band Summer Lonely Clubs Sand Peppers Sergeants Jukebox Lonely Heart

Author:Johnny Ramistella

“Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.”

Fall Stones Bones Dry Sand

Author:Don Van Vliet

“I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.”

Inspirational Fall Perfect Plans Balance Finished Sand Grain Sparrows Grains Of Sand

Book:Lyrics:1962-2012

Source: Lyrics:1962-2012

“Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.”

Men Rocks Dating Sand Rock And Roll

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night, when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight.”

Remember Night Sea Baby Dating Sand Polynesians Waikiki

Author:Ricky Nelson

“Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.”

Men Young Song Voice Strange Musical Young Man Sand Dylan Glue Zimmerman

Author:David Bowie

“Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.”

Art Might Inspiring Thoughtful Sand Sparks Infinity Grain Grains Of Sand Starlight

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.”

Men Poetry Baby Band Blue Dancing Sand Pirate Ballerina Music Man

Author:Elton John

“The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.”

Wells Strong Technology Design Projects Percent Built Safety Oil Sand Conventional Carbon Emissions Footprint Keystones Carbon Footprint

Author:John Hoeven

“Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.”

Philosophy Hours Loses Sleep Fantasy Goes On Easier Empty Let Me Sand Palaces Let Me Go

Author:Billy Joel

“The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'”

Happens Challenges Sticks Complexes Aids Sand Mature Hiv

Author:Brande Roderick

“In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.”

Jobs Results Sand Partisans Bombshells

Author:Amy Klobuchar

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