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Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
— Randy Savage
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
— Oscar Wilde
Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
— George Sand
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.
— Steven Michael Quezada
A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.
— William Joyce
Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.
— John Clellon Holmes
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.
— Neil L. Andersen
Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away.
— Saru Singhal
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
— Jim Lovell
If you think about it, finding true love is a lot like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach.
— Chrissy Anderson
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
— Charles Baudelaire
He imagined the gazelles raising the dry dustLike soft brush floating on the crests of sand. — Herbert Mason
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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
— Shlomo Sand
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
— Truman Capote
It soaked into me like water into sand, fast and heavy-making.
— Rebecca Stead
life slips out of hands, just like handful sand;does not matter how hard you press to protect it will anyhow flow out the hands.
— Deepika Chamoli
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But
— Lauren Oliver
Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
— Joni Mitchell
I love like I'm thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo
For a second it looked like a mortal horse. The next it was pure sand. Shifting from bright gold to violent red, fire and sun in a windswept desert.
— Alwyn Hamilton
hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness
— Dazai Osamu
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.
— Erri De Luca
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
— Lupita Nyong'o
Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
— Michael Skolnik
For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand.
— Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glassthe earth
into the second
eternity. — Margaret George
Life is like sand on the beach. Each time the waves comes to the edge, it takes a little bit of you".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
My feelings for you...are like the stillness of the sand...they make no sound...as they're washed away.
— Banri Hidaka
The future is not like a book one can read," he said quietly. "It is ever changing, like the rush of water, or the swirl of sand.
— Christie Golden
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
— Henry David Thoreau
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.
— Laurie Lee
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
Women are like handfuls of sand. They all rub up under your scales now and then, but the finest ones do put a polish on a man.
— R. Lee Smith
Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.
— Vironika Tugaleva
If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when the world agrees with you/
— Christina Engela
You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to hold you love of my life.
— Euginia Herlihy
I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.
— Charlie Bewley
The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing , you can look at the sand.
— Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
— Thomas A. Edison
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
— George Carman
They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.
— Emo Philips
You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.
— S.A. Tawks
Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
— Ace Antonio Hall
My father didn't believe in war. He said war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm.
— Nnedi Okorafor
He kissed me like ice cream, like a jazz waltz, the rough, gentle way the sea washed sand off my skin on the hottest day of the year.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.
— Sharon Begley
Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael)
— Ellis Peters
My happiness is like this sand:I let it run out of my hand. — John Gould Fletcher
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.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand.
— Santosh Kalwar
Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
— David Bowie
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 can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.
— Kiersten White
The hot west wind that blew like sand whispering across stone.
— Steven Erikson
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
— George Sand
Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
— Basil Bunting
Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
the Flyer and tossed it along the sand "just like you've seen an umbrella turned inside out and loose in the wind," remembered John
— David McCullough
We don't lose people, they just slip down like sand through the loop holes we have in ourselves.
— Himanshu Chhabra
Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful. Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.
— Peter C. Brown
I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.
— Ryan Winfield
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.
— William Anders
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
— Criss Jami
the sand was like sugar under his feet. They
— Anne Rice
Her eyes are brown like the morning sand breaking in a new day.
— Church Johnson
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
— John Steinbeck
