Sand Quotes - Page 10

• What is needed for a sound expansion of production is additional capital goods, not money or fiduciary media. The credit expansion is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Media, Fiduciary, Credit

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Patriotic, Eye, Dust

  Thorstein Veblen (2006). “An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace, and the Terms of Its Perpetuation”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Past, Gold, Daggers

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

  Mark Strong

  Needs, Never Quit, Shifting

  Source: collider.com

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• Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

  Ben Shapiro

  Running, Depressing, Hurt

  Ben Shapiro (0101). “And We All Fall Down”, p.55, Creators Publishing

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• Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Mind, Lions, Ants

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.158, Penguin

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• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

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• Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Blow, Rocks, Air

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• Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Talking, Ignorant, Desert

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• When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Melting, Ascent

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• It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

  Emily Carr

  Rain, Flower, Moss

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.326, D & M Publishers

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• When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.

  Red Skelton

  Hurt, Garden, Thinking

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• Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Writing, Names, Earth

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• I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Alcohol, Brain, Poison

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• If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.

  Seth Shostak

  Beach, Ocean, Would Be

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• We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Rocks, Scripture, Inspired

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• When the winds blow and the rains pour, they blow and pour on all. Those who have built their foundations on bedrock rather than sand survive the storms. There is a way to build on bedrock by developing a deep personal conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ and knowing how to receive inspiration. . . . We need to learn how to recognize and apply these promptings.

  Allan F. Packer

  Jesus, Rain, Inspiration

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• Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.

  Geoff Tate

  Wall, Thinking, Feet

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• Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

  Kevin Keegan

  Country, Mean, Cities

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• Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

  Charles Mingus

  God, Men, Thinking

  "Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book". Book by Andrew Homzy, November 1, 1991.

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• I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Able, Sticks, Young

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

  John Baldessari

  Artist, Glasses, Snow

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• As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Rivers, Childhood

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• Don't bring your sand toys to the park. That's another bad move. Because I go to the park, and I'm on the Vicodin and a little weed too - let's face it - and I go in there, and my wife's like, 'Bring the sand toys! Bring the sand toys!' And I know what happens every single time: I become sand toy repo man from the eight little kids that run off in nine different directions with my sand toys.

  Al Madrigal

  Running, Weed, Moving

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