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Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens. -- Jerry Pournelle
Grinding trying to get my goals accomplished because nothing in this world is ever promised. -- G-Eazy
Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark. -- Gerald Massey
My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle. -- Kevin Gates
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. -- Robert Harris
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. -- Leonard Woolf
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. -- Charles Darwin
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. -- Alan Bennett
I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next. -- Jake Johnson
My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot. -- Busta Rhymes
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. -- Charles Darwin
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. -- Ken Kesey
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. -- Lee Trevino
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding. -- David Walton
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. -- Jeremiah Wright
When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable. -- Emile Hirsch
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country. -- Thomas Friedman
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. -- Barack Obama
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It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. -- Cory Doctorow
It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way. -- Johnny Weir
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. -- Gore Vidal
I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people. -- Tyga
A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently. -- Bobby Flay
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us. -- Henry B. Eyring
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether. -- Jake Johnson
I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. -- Sloane Crosley
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. -- Hanna Rosin
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. -- Bryan Fuller
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. -- Sean Hannity
Be positive. Keep grinding. Stay positive. -- Scott Hall
ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars -- Leonard Cohen
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. -- Anthony Burgess
I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry... -- David Sheff
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. -- William Shakespeare
Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!! -- Eric Thomas
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. -- Leonard Woolf
I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music. -- Alex Jones
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. -- R. K. Milholland
You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually. -- Annika Sorenstam
I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next. -- Jake Johnson
You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding! -- Eric Thomas
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. -- Robert Peel
It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend. -- Macklemore
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. -- Five for Fighting
As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football. -- Brett Finch
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. -- Keith Richards
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding. -- David Walton
When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose. -- Steven Pressfield
You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor. -- Craig Ferguson
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. -- Hans Arp
Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring. -- Gary Jarman
If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life. -- Bryan Fuller
You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance. -- Tony Romo
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses. -- Heinrich Heine
Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style. -- Gilbert Melendez
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride? -- J. G. Holland
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep. -- Charles M. Schulz
Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled. -- Elizabeth Hoyt
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. -- Anthony Burgess
Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard. -- Frederick Barthelme
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier. -- Chris Bonington
Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing. -- Bobby Adair
I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. -- Christopher Hitchens
The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth. -- Orison S. Marden
In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk! -- Charles Baudelaire
I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps. -- Tim Salmon
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping. -- Bill Nye
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music. -- Juicy J
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. -- Hedy Lamarr
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hate is never an option for a truth seeker. It binds, stifles, constipates and causes the gears of philosophical progress to come to a grinding halt. From Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather - an ebook -- Robert Gately
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful. -- Dalai Lama
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. -- Bill Gaede
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters. -- Mark Slouka
Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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