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Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I. -- Dionne Warwick
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. -- George Berkeley
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. -- Pablo Picasso
I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again. -- Peter Tosh
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. -- Jesse Owens
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. -- Emily Dickinson
Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust. -- Walt Disney
Dust is the parent of a star! -- Munia Khan
Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold. -- Jon Gordon
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed. -- Ted Dekker
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope. -- Elie Wiesel
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! -- Omar Khayyam
Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes -- Bob Dylan
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you. -- Elizabeth George
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen. -- Alexander Anderson
Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience. -- Richard Stanley
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. -- Langston Hughes
Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. -- Candice Millard
Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. -- Candice Millard
I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world. -- Robert Paul Weston
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again. -- Aaliyah
My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get. -- Laurie Graham
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. -- Don McLean
What do you do to your hair?" "Dust, hair gel, and a little gun oil." "Ever thought of patenting the recipe?" "No. -- Ilona Andrews
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. -- Ma Jian
God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. -- Rick Riordan
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. -- T. S. Eliot
That great dust-heap called 'history'. -- Augustine Birrell
I'm full of dust and guitars. -- Syd Barrett
You either make dust or eat dust. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. -- Benjamin Franklin
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. -- Jesse Owens
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. -- Rumi
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. -- Thomas Carlyle
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. -- T. S. Eliot
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Berthold Auerbach
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Pablo Picasso
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. -- James Shirley
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. -- Steven Adler
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. -- Elinor Glyn
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. -- Camille Claudel
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. -- Jack Kerouac
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. -- John Webster
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! -- Henry Austin Dobson
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. -- John le Carre
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. -- Albert Einstein
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. -- Henry David Thoreau
Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. -- Jon Bon Jovi
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. -- George C. Wallace
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. -- Maya Angelou
Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust. -- Nick Vujicic
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. -- Margery Allingham
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. -- Jack London
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. -- Italo Calvino
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. -- Bram Stoker
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. -- George Carlin
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. -- Steven Pressfield
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid. -- Jack Nicklaus
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. -- Ernest Hemingway
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue. -- John Irving
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. -- Claire Danes
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. -- Salman Rushdie
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. -- Alice Walker
Nothing but dust and fundamentalists. -- Terry Pratchett
I'm covered with loser dust. -- Courtney Love
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I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck. -- Bill Watterson
All books are merely delayed dust. -- George Elliott Clarke
...We are but dust and shadows... -- Cassandra Clare
You can't really dust for vomit. -- Christopher Guest
God sinks into dust before man. -- Max Stirner
I'm full of dust and guitars... -- Syd Barrett
History is a great dust heap. -- Thomas Carlyle
Facts cling to photographs like dust. -- Andy Grundberg
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever. -- Mary Lou Retton
Yesterday's dust determined today's range of vision -- Mario
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust -- Jesse Owens
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, -- Ihab Hassan
Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
I would rather be ashes than dust. -- Jack London
A man thinks all dust stays outdoors. -- Ernest Vincent Wright
In my case dust has become Gold -- A. R. Rahman
Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows. -- Mortimer Wheeler
Life is too short to dust every week. -- Mary Engelbreit
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust. -- Richard Eder
I will be dust, but dust in love -- Francisco de Quevedo
Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust. -- William Shakespeare
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul. -- Pablo Picasso
When a man dies he kicks the dust. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are a blend of dust and divinity. -- Huston Smith
Houses are full of things that gather dust -- Jack Kerouac
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust. -- Gordon Lightfoot
Just like dust, we settle in this town. -- Kacey Musgraves
Look what a little vain dust we are! -- Joseph Addison
Angels, pixies, faerie dust Treading love and living lust. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution. -- D. H. Lawrence
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. -- Benjamin Franklin
We start out as little bits of disconnected dust. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible. -- Charles Spurgeon
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda. -- Robert Jackson Bennett
Music washes away the dust of every day life. -- Art Blakey
True love is born of experience, not fairy dust. -- Janette Oke
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. -- Marianne Moore
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life. -- Art Blakey
The air smelled of paper and dust and years. -- George R. R. Martin
The sublime is contained in a grain of dust. -- Walter Savage Landor
All we are is dust in the wind, dude. -- Ted Theodore
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata. -- David Weinberger
Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again. -- Dorothy Fields
I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond. -- Mark Munoz

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