Best 142 quotes in «sand quotes» category

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.

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].

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

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

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

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

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.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood