Grain Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Matthew Ashford

  Play, People, Able

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• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Future, Knowledge

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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

  Chris Daughtry

  Color, People, Rude

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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  Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

  William Goldman

  Love, Beach, Soulmate

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Stars, Pain

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Vegetables

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• Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Men, Civilization, Waiting

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• Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

  Walter Lippmann

  Running, Law, Genius

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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

  Ryan Shay

  Steel, Deep Within, Dig Deep

  "A Brother Runs Past His Sorrow" by Juliet Macur, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 2014.

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

  Fábio Moon

  Escaping, Wind, Waiting

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• I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is-as William Blake said-in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Flower, Reality

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• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.

  J. J. Abrams

  Tv Shows, Keys, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 2, 2008.

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• God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Choices, Might, Wilderness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1920). “The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elizabeth and Other Poems”

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• The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stars, Rain, Flames

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.425

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• Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

  William Mountford

  Summer, Winter, Branches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 421), 1895.

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• O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

  Augustus

  Mean, Italian, Agriculture

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• 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

  Plant, Filled, Cockles

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• Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.

  Michael Pollan

  Cereal, Lucky Charms, Puff

  "Unhappy Meals". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2007.

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• Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

  Don Sutton

  Adversity, Criticism

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• Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Laughing, Grain Of Salt, Able

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• My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

  Christian Louboutin

  Father, Views, Splinters

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• I always seem to be singing against the grain.

  Steven Morrissey

  Singing, Seems

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• The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

  Richard Mottram

  People, Grades, Honour

  "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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