Top 40 Quotes About Grindstone
#1. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer
Charles Dickens
#2. ...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.
Honore De Balzac
#3. clarity of vision that could only have come from being honed on the grindstone of reality.
Margaret Atwood
#4. Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.
Carew Papritz
#5. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.
Philip Roth
#6. Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV.
Charles Dickens
#7. One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
Maurice Sendak
#8. When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.
Ben Schwartz
#9. If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose,
Les Wexner
#10. Loadstone Rock Book the Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow
Charles Dickens
#11. Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
Steven Tyler
#12. It was when I firmly pressed myself against my grindstone of life, did my most illuminating sparks fly.
Garry Fitchett
#13. Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI.
Charles Dickens
#14. Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#15. I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.
Andy Roddick
#16. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
Benjamin Franklin
#17. Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
Josh Billings
#18. The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
Fred Allen
#19. The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.
Charles Dickens
#20. Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas Holcroft
#21. We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
H.G.Wells
#22. You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
Jim Rash
#23. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.
Zig Ziglar
#25. There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.
Stephnie Weir
#26. Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph
Charles Dickens
#27. Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.
Antoine Rivarol
#28. I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm
Charles Dickens
#29. Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan!
William Shakespeare
#30. Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.
Robert Boswell
#31. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Charles Dickens
#32. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.
Robert Reich
#33. I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it as I may. But as far as seeing through a grindstone goes, I am afraid - " Susan shook her head dubiously, "that they are all tarred with the same brush.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.
Chris Hadfield
#35. I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.
Andy Roddick
#36. I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.
T.C. Boyle
#37. The lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.
Charles Dickens
#38. A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
Henry Ward Beecher
#39. A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.
Edith Wharton
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