Grind Quotes - Page 12

• Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, weve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Children, Men, Tolerance

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• When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Space, Pigs

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.275

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• It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Mind, Body

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.159, TAN Books

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Water, Mills

  Orison Swett Marden (1924). “The Conquest of Worry”

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• The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.

  Seymour Hersh

  Axes, Funny Things, Long

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

  Emily Bronte

  Crush, Tyrants, Slave

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.447, Penguin

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• I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Feet, Bumps

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

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• He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

  J. G. Holland

  Color, Paint

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• I really feel that actors should really know who they are as characters; they should really study their lines; they should be prepared; but once they come to set, for me the most exciting way to shoot a scene is to really find it, really kind of grind your way through it, until you feel like you have something that you can put together.

  Oren Moverman

  Character, Together, Way

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• I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.

  Tinie Tempah

  Cousin, Ibiza, Twenties

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

  Ralph Reese

  People, Natural Gifts, Kind

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Drifting Off, Goal, Finding Yourself

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• Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!

  Eric Thomas

  Know How, Knows

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• Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

  Christian Smith

  Real, Creative, Fuel

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• Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Men, May

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• Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Promotion, Clutch

  "The road not taken" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Playing Around

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• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Children, Acceptance

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

  Saul Williams

  Song: The Ritual, 2008

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.

  Stephen Fry

  Hurt, Broken, Stronger

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.101, Soho Press

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• What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world?

  Chris Colfer

  Jobs, Kids, Balance

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• His frown was less dark and more confused. "What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes." "And you let some strange college boy grind all over you for your first time? That's stupid, Ali." Not going to be embarrassed, not going to be embarrassed. "First, he wasn't grinding on me, and second, you're no better than him." A solid minute of silence, then "You are terrible for my ego, you know that?" I could say the same to him.

  Gena Showalter

  Confused, Stupid, Dark

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• My life is one demd horrid grind.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Life Is

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 64 (Mr Mantalini)

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• But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Wings, Ideas

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• God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Woe, Retribution, Mills

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123

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