Top 100 Quotes About Grain
#1. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.
Guy Berryman
#2. I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Mike Colter
#3. What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life's emptiness wind than the knowledge?
Sorin Cerin
#4. It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.
Soren Kierkegaard
#5. Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage.
John Podhoretz
#6. heart with greater joy than when my grain and new wine abound! (Ps. 4:7)
Beth Moore
#7. Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz
#8. Fish rule the waters,
but can be caught using worms.
Birds rule the air,
but can be caught using grain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Peter Hammill
#10. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
#11. A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!
Marc Bekoff
#12. If you do not have a loving concern for the environment ... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals ... they will be destroying you.
Seth
#13. In Park Slope, even the play dough was whole grain.
Sarah Pinneo
#14. Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#15. It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Charles Dickens
#16. To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
#17. Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#18. At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.
Michael Scott
#19. I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
John Calvin
#20. Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.
Alexandra Robbins
#21. All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.
Alicia Keys
#22. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.
From View With a Grain of Sand
Wislawa Szymborska
#23. Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
Brigham Young
#24. Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.
Carl Jung
#25. The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Never mix the grain and the grape.
Anonymous
#27. Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
Ramakrishna
#28. The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
Fabio Moon
#29. I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.
Sandra Bernhard
#30. Each star, numbered. Each star, named! Like every grain of sand. Every hair on his head. Every trouble that filled his day. Created. Numbered. Known.
Max Lucado
#31. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
#32. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more ... A man sees only what concerns him.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
Kathleen O'Dell
#34. If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics ... but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.
Philip Pullman
#35. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ... nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#36. It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
Dan Colen
#37. ...there was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides. Not anywhere. That was the awful truth...
Ransom Riggs
#38. Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
Austin O'Malley
#39. If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. So blow your nose.
Truman Capote
#40. The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
John Updike
#41. The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
Richard Mottram
#42. I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.
Tupac Shakur
#43. In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain."
"And later?"
"Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.
Rohinton Mistry
#44. I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach.
Jeff Erno
#45. History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...
Phyllis McGinley
#46. We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#47. 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.
Raquel Cepeda
#48. I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.
Beyonce Knowles
#49. Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
Ozzy Osbourne
#50. It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.
Eva LaRue
#51. Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita
Maxine
#52. The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall
#53. As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.
Marcel Proust
#54. I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.
Ronald Reagan
#55. Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted.
Joan Didion
#57. If you throw your grain into the sea it will come back to you
Thabiso Monkoe
#58. Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
William John Locke
#59. I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.
Johnny Ramone
#60. Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
#61. I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.
Judd Apatow
#63. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#64. A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Even the most ridiculous of stories can contain a grain of truth.
Lemony Snicket
#66. My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.
Steve Miller
#67. A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.
J.D. Winston
#68. 6So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her. 7. And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and o his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.
Anonymous
#69. In my experience, when people take offence at something, it is invariably because they know that there is a large grain of truth in what has offended them. Otherwise, why would they complain about it?
Arthur Mathews
#70. I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.
Robin Stern
#71. The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.
Katy Perry
#72. But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.
Henry David Thoreau
#73. Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.
Joseph Heller
#74. The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together.
Fritz Nordengren
#75. A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
Desiderius Erasmus
#76. A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.
Charles Darwin
#77. A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.
Michael Dickinson
#78. When someone tells you it's a grain of sand, there's a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.
Vik Muniz
#79. I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
Kehinde Wiley
#80. Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.
Robert Black
#81. We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture ...
Gene Stratton-Porter
#82. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
C.S. Lewis
#83. Throw your grain into the see and it will come back to you
Thabiso Monkoe
#84. 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.
Mahmud Shabistari
#85. I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.
John Buford
#86. Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.
Paulo Coelho
#87. Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.
Steven Johnson
#88. There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.
Roger L'Estrange
#89. To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
Henry David Thoreau
#90. When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean.
Brandon J. Barnard
#91. A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.
Margo Kelly
#92. 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 W. Service
#93. Then the Zionists got involved and affected relations. The U.S. Congress stopped the export of grain to Iraq from the U.S. We explained it as Jewish influence and our stance on Palestine.
John Nixon
#94. You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.
Mark Wahlberg
#96. A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
Ernest Renan
#97. Not, at any rate, such a woman as her. It went against the grain with Mr. Sowerby, this seeking of pecuniary assistance from the very woman whose hand he had attempted to gain about a fortnight since; but he allowed his sister to prevail. What
Anthony Trollope
#98. My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.
Brigham Young
#99. If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
William Jennings Bryan
#100. The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.
Ho Chi Minh
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