Sand Quotes - Page 12

• At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.

  Kerri Walsh

  Beach, Practice, Two

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

  Rafael Cruz

  Evolution

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Disappointment, Party

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.

  Josh Tickell

  War, Believe, Oil

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• It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs are very worrying. Half of them, apparently, don't believe in global warming. They think it's a hoax, which is more of that stupid, stick-their-head-in-the-sand attitude. Where is the outrage at the generations that have preceded them spending all the money? But the cynicism is so deep and so ingrained; I guess no one feels they can do anything.

  Bill Maher

  Attitude, Stupid, Believe

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• Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

  Michael Skolnik

  Drawing, Generations, Done

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.

  Vera Nazarian

  Greek, Mark, Dostoyevsky

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.

  Frank Gehry

  Beach, Kids, Parent

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

  Emma Donoghue

  Ambition, Thinking, Heaven

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Ideas, Mind

  Source: sangam.org

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• In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].

  Bashar al-Assad

  Blood, Weapons, Soil

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

  Steven Knight

  Oysters, Class, Revolution

  Source: deadline.com

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• I could be wrong about that, and [Susan Rice ] may have really wanted [secretary of state place]. But now she has become a liability. If, in fact, it was legitimate. If [Barack Obama] wanted her and she wanted it, they've told her to go pound sand now, and that's purely because of Benghazi.

  Rush Limbaugh

  May, Facts, Pounds

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

  Steven Petrow

  Wise, Strategy

  "Civilities: Is this the beginning of the end for Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos? Taking your questions and comments". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2017.

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• The world is laughing at us. They're laughing at the stupidity of our President [Barack Obama]. Remember he drew the line in the sand - the line is in the sand.

  Donald Trump

  Laughing, Stupidity, President

  Source: time.com

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• There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back into the earth, which is where it comes from, which are related to the whole concept of I Am. So there's that one below-surface idea, and then there's these other practical and more pragmatic ideas about how the light functions and the geometry and mathematics behind the reverberation of light from the surface outward.

  Tavares Strachan

  Ideas, Glasses, Light

  "Tavares Strachan's desert explosion" by Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really predict the future, but you can say, "Boy, are those glaciers ever melting." You can measure that, and you can say, "When they're all melted there won't be any Athabasca River," and you can say, "What will happen to the oil sands then?" because you need a lot of water to make that oil. "Where's that going to come from?" You can say things like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Boys, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Important, Corporations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Running, Brother, Thinking

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• In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

  Anita Shreve

  Rocks, Sea, Desire

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• As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.

  Richard Russo

  Sleep, Thinking, Two

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Dec 28, 2010

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• In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Hands, Religion

  Song: Every Grain of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981

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• I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fate, Destiny, Long Ago

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing

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