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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone. -- George Bernard Shaw
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. -- Muhammad Ali
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -- Robert W. Service
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. -- Milton Friedman
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate. -- Markus Zusak
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. -- William Blake
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. -- Edward Lear
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. -- Og Mandino
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. -- Woodrow Wilson
You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again. -- William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. -- William Blake
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. -- Napoleon Hill
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. -- William Goldman
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. -- Rick Warren
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. -- Mark Twain
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. -- Og Mandino
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. -- Talib Kweli
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
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. -- John Dyer
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that. -- Brian Andreas
Sand castles just aren't made to last. -- Alice Yi-Li Yeh
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks. -- Charlie Kaufman
Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr. -- T. S. Eliot
Bernie or bust actually reduces the leverage for Bernie [SandÐµrs] to claim victory. -- Ben Wikler
Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by. -- Beth Nielsen Chapman
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd
Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. -- Juliette Binoche
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up. -- Richard Attenborough
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream. -- Matthew Arnold
Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand -- E.M. Tippetts
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. -- Beau Bridges
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. -- Robert Wise
Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?" He smiled. "I wouldn't know. I only fall in love at night. Never lasts beyond breakfast, though. -- Tessa Dare
Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto... you get spa like skin, without the price tag. -- Jenna Morasca
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts. -- George Carman
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We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune. -- Joe Biden
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. -- Jacopo Sannazaro
Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You're going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how you play from the sand really matters. -- Jordan Spieth
I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. -- Behati Prinsloo
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. -- Erma Bombeck
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches. -- Ron Eglash
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. -- Deb Caletti
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. -- Oscar Wilde
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. -- George H. W. Bush
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. -- Steven Spielberg
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. -- David Suzuki
Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers. -- Brian McDermott
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. -- Peter Hammill
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. -- Walter Payton
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. -- Lord Acton
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown. -- Athol Fugard
The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up. -- Rob Machado
Genius has no taste for weaving sand. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sand dunes look like two tits. -- Valentino Garavani
Heaven is in a grain of sand. -- William Blake
We're ostriches and the whole world is sand. -- Jim Butcher
The magic of property turns sand to gold. -- Arthur Young
We have ...drawn a line in the sand. -- George H. W. Bush
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. -- D. W. Griffith
I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand. -- Jenna Karel
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. -- Pythagoras
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. -- Confucius
A foolish man... built his house upon the sand. -- Matthew McConaughey
God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. -- Caspar David Friedrich
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything. -- Gao Xingjian
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. -- Max Lucado
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand. -- J. C. Ryle
Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution. -- Rafael Cruz
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. -- Jimi Hendrix
I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas. -- Libba Bray
what a rope of sand we are without a leader ... -- Marjorie Bowen
A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. -- David McCord
Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away. -- Saru Singhal
You change or you hide your head in the sand. -- Tony Gilroy
Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. -- Lenny Bruce
Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy. -- Steven Petrow
Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man. -- Jimmy Buffett
Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand -- Joni Mitchell
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Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding. -- Croft M. Pentz
'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead. -- Rudyard Kipling
Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone -- Arab Proverb
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand. -- Carrie Underwood
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible. -- Edwin Louis Cole
I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand -- Tom Waits
Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. -- Robert Black
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. -- Wislawa Szymborska
We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues. -- Dalia Mogahed
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. -- William Morris Hunt
Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains. -- Paulo Coelho
Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. -- Robin Sharma
Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. -- John Clellon Holmes
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. -- Henry Allen Ironside
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean -- Priyanka Chopra
Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity. -- Sergei Dovlatov
I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand. -- Robbie Robertson
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand. -- Pierre Loti
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. -- E. Stanley Jones
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. -- Jethro Tull
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. -- Neil Gaiman
Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done]. -- Michael Skolnik
Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it. -- Eric Bana
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. -- George Mercer Dawson
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble -- Charles Spurgeon
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. -- Niels Henrik Abel
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. -- Eric Knight
I love like I'm thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand? -- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand. -- Dan Jenkins
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. -- Oscar Wilde

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