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

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source. — Rick Perry

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored. — Percy Cerutty

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand. — Salman Rushdie

Most people are like sand, the impact of their lives washed away by years. — Michelle Hodkin

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ... — George Sand

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! — Charles Atlas

Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them. — Brandon Sanderson

INSPIRATIONAL NOTE TO SELF:
Flowers grow in sand.
I can do anything. — Jen Sincero

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand

We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars. — Jessica Khoury

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

In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness? — Joanna Newsom

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee! — Charles Kingsley

Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, You have no idea what you do to me. — Rachel Harris

Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you're thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand — Chris Kuhn

You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst. — Ainslie Hogarth

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

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her ... — Alice McDermott

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

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ... — George Sand

Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer. — Jenny Han

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand. — Theodore Roscoe

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. — Diane Von Furstenberg

A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it. — Andi Zeisler

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand. — Dr. Seuss

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become! — George Sand

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Shrapnel and a wave of sand struck the side like a bitch-slap from God Himself. — James Rollins

Only those who have walked barefoot on gravel will appreciate soft sand beneath their feet. — Craig Smedley

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

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

Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!.
Sand of Passion — Georgia Kakalopoulou

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

Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand. — Steven Erikson

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

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. — Desiderius Erasmus

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert. — Palle Oswald

A quick turn around a corner
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe — S. Kelley Harrell

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN — Leo Gough

Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand. — Jeremy Robert Johnson

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. — Jan Morris

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon. — Charles Bukowski

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

It becomes known as the time of the ostriches. "Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everybody does," she murmurs. Madame — Anthony Doerr

When you lose, let that be a lesson to you.
When you win - you don't learn anything. — Allan P. Sand

Toraf nods in all seriousness. "Humans eat sand. That's why they spend so much time on land". — Anna Banks

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

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies. — George Sand

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

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges

Color streamed into a toe of darkness testing the sand. — Frank Herbert

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. — George Sand

In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous. — Victor Hugo

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

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. — George Sand

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. — Isaac Of Nineveh

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

As you come out of the sea, naked,
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverberating statue and sword of the sand. — Pablo Neruda

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks. — Charlie Kaufman

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

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish. — Sebastien De Castell

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand

A foundation that had been built of stone shifted like sand on the blowing wind. — R.A. Salvatore

[Suspend them there, in the mind's eye: skinny, young, coming through dark toward warmth, flying over the cold sand and stone. We will return to them. — Lauren Groff

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

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

If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it. — Kendare Blake

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. — Robin Sharma

One changes from day to day, and ... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. — George Sand

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

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. — George Sand

I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Fretting at trouble only doubles it. — George Sand

And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell. — Hugh Howey

A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality. — Zygmunt Bauman

Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand. — Santosh Kalwar

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see. — Sting

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe. — George Sand

She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone. — Chuck Wendig

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. — George Sand

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again. — George Sand

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. — Elizabeth Berkley

You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky. — Elisabeth Hewer

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

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand? — Victor Hugo

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. — Mark Strong

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence. — Pamela Moore

But I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside her in the sand. — Sarah Ockler

Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a — L.M. Montgomery

Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand. — Marcel Proust

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. — Marcus Aurelius

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. — Psalms 139

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it. — Katherine Mansfield

She sand late into the night, till her heart was full — Anamika Mishra

There is but on virtue
the eternal sacrifice of self. — George Sand