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Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. — Randy Savage

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star. — Arthur Machen

Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain? — Laura Thalassa

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain. — Walter Scott

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve. — Laozi

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain. — Bernard Hopkins

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth: you get splinters later on. — Augusten Burroughs

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
— Jose Marti

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it. — Michael Shanks

The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot. — Robert Macfarlane

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life — Joe Hill

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work. — Gena Showalter

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain. — Mahatma Gandhi

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl. — Peter S. Beagle

Hengall the Warrior hated war. The business of life, he liked to say, is to plant grain, not blades. — Bernard Cornwell

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. — John Arbuthnot

He tried to lift his chin, though it was difficult when Cinder's glare was making him feel about as important as a grain of salt. — Marissa Meyer

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it. — Lee Woodruff

Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain. — Rabih Alameddine

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop? — Les Claypool

I'm looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach. — Blake Crouch

Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better. Of — Adam M. Grant

Follow the grain in your own wood ... — Howard Thurman

What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes! — Ana Claudia Antunes

I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach. — Jeff Erno

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. — Walter Scott

throw your grain into the sea and it will come back to you — Thabiso Monkoe

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it. — Caroline Llewellyn

What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life's emptiness wind than the knowledge? — Sorin Cerin

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. — John F. Kennedy

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature. — Sri Aurobindo

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol. — Barbara Mertz

The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read. — Katy Perry

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination. — Virginia Woolf

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. — Elijah Wood

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste. — Alton Brown

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture. — Keanu Reeves

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. — Wyclef Jean

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her. — Mike Tyson

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine

Grain prices in France, for example, where the supply of coin was relatively scarce, were over seven times higher in 1600 than in 1500. — Norman Davies

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. — Rachel Carson

I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die. — Martin Luther

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me. — Amber Heard

Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover. — Countee Cullen

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... — Phyllis McGinley

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

a world in a grain of sand | And a heaven in a wild flower'. — Marina Warner

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you. — Chris Daughtry

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. — Caspar David Friedrich

Man is a living lie
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain. — Garth Brooks

Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and heaven cannot excel. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. — Fabio Moon

I prefer them broken.'
'Why is that?' Victor said.
Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers.
'Because I am the sinner who created them. — Mitch Albom

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust. — Dogen

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. — Walter Lippmann

In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall. — Dean Cavanagh

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough. — Christopher Paolini

In Park Slope, even the play dough was whole grain. — Sarah Pinneo

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you. — Ann Cotton

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. — John Greenleaf Whittier

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl. — Truth Devour

Trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure — Graham Greene

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. — William Goldman

I take everything with a grain of salt. — Hope Solo

When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us. — Oswald Chambers

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin'
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn — Tash

True faith has no eyes, no ability to see. Instead, the Father left us with the most precious little grain - a tiny little thing - in a mustard seed. — Ursula Denise Walker

When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean. — Brandon J. Barnard

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt. — Ronald D. Moore

The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together. — Fritz Nordengren

Never mix the grain and the grape. — Anonymous

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. — Confucius

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. — C.S. Lewis

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material. — Robin Williams

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed. — William John Locke

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. — Bob Dylan

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least. — Mencius

Heaven is in a grain of sand. — William Blake

Grain grows best in shit... — Ursula K. Le Guin

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy. — Jermaine Jackson

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden

Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world. — Roger Williams

If we deliberately choose to obey God, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power. — Oswald Chambers

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love. — Anthony Liccione

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote? — Bertrand Russell

The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding. — Mary Karr

FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE. — Mark Twain

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. — Charles Dickens

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace. — George Bernard Shaw