Sand Quotes - Page 17

• Progress. Just make progress. It's okay to have setbacks and the need for do-overs. It's okay to draw a line in the sand and start over again - and again. Just make sure you're moving the line forward. Move forward. Take baby steps... Then change will come. And it will be good.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Baby, Monday, Moving

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• Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Life, Finding Yourself, Gold

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• When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery kicks sand in your face don't give up, keep moving forward. Use your brain and eliminate a lot of your personal agony. There are times when you should not take NO for an answer. But there are others when you should never put yourself in the place to be rejected to begin with. Seek the wisdom to know the difference and then go for it. Persevere in the face of disappointment.

  Jack White

  Art, Giving Up, Disappointment

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• We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Water, Silence

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Creating

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

  R. C. Sproul

  House, Firsts, Built

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• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Yesterday, Worry

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jan 29, 2010

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• Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Block, Hands, Generations

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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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• If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Forgiveness, Memories, Mind

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• The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

  Barbara Demick

  Night, Dust, Korea

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• I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Opportunity, Tree, World

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• The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Long, Records

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• The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Men, Knives, People

  "China as a Heap of Loose Sand" (1924)

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• The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

  Jethro Tull

  Future, Castles, Moral

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Energy, Nasty

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• The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Writing, Men, Offending

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• My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me to buy a pair as well. I didn't like black, so I got the sand color, and I've been wearing them since college.

  Andy Spade

  Dad, College, Color

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• When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Stones, Fossils, Found

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• Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

  Rick Perry

  Oil, Canada, Source

  "What Moves Republican Crowds in Iowa" by Michael D. Shear, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. December 28, 2011.

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• You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count.

  Billy Graham

  Glasses, Renewable Resources, May

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• I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

  Khalil

  Sea, World, Infinite

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• You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Cake, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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