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«Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: sand, The Sand
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
Author: Nikola Tesla (Engineer, Inventor) | Keywords: accidentally, Against All Odds, diagram, diagrams, Drew, flash, instant, i drew, lightning, motor, motoring, motors, odds, peril, revealed, sand, secrets, Secrets of, stick on, stumbled, The Sand, wrestled, wrestles
«It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.»
Author: Rodan of Alexandria | Keywords: grain, sand, shoe, the Mountain, wears
«Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.»
Author: Thomas Jones | Keywords: fall through, grains, one by one, sand, seashore
«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.»
Author: George Bush (President) | Keywords: filibuster, filibustering, meter, meters, sand, The Sand
«It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.»
Author: Muhammad Ali (Activist, Boxer) | About: Jobs | Keywords: beat, grass, pound, sand, The Sand, waves
«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.»
Author: Og Mandino (Essayist, Psychologist) | About: Mountains, Purpose | Keywords: All My, apply, cries, efforts, grain, henceforth, I am here, mercy, mountain, potential, sand, shrank, shrink, shrinks, shrink from, shrunk, strain, strained, straining
«In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.»
Author: Rachel Carson | About: Earth | Keywords: beach, curving, grain, headland, On the Beach, outthrust, sand, The Beaches, The Story
«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.»
Author: Erma Bombeck | About: Vacation | Keywords: beaches, belongings, occupy, On the Beach, saltwater, sand, sunnier, sunniest, sunny, The Beaches, The Sand, vacations
«Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: blowing up, blown up, blows, blow out, blow over, built, certainties, damage, damaged, damages, doubt, houses, sand, sanded, sanding, subject, subjecting, subject to, wind
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