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

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand — E.M. Tippetts

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

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. — George Sand

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. — George Sand

Take my hand
and ...
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparkling waves — Munia Khan

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

The sand storm carries words but feelings not even a hurricane. — Gwen Calvo

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

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

The beach is a natural park, without the greenery but the sand is a natural toy. — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

The sun woke me up the next morning. I sat up and groaned. My clothes were full of sand. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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 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

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael) — Ellis Peters

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand. — Dean Koontz

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

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

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

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

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson

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

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

I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand. — Jennifer Echols

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

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

If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve. — Ray Bradbury

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. — Anne Lamott

Why did the sand-blasted catbird have to be so seaswoggling logical? It was downright infuriating. — Gillian Bronte Adams

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

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life. — George Sand

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive. — Rupert Murdoch

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author. — George Sand

The sand beneath the blast was instantly turned into a layer of green glass ten feet deep, and the shock waves could be felt one hundred miles away. — Bill O'Reilly

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man. — Jimmy Buffett

Come on Princess," he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe. — Jillian Dodd

...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand. — Mike Bond

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. — Lenny Bruce

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

I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea ... and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. — Frank Herbert

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. — Edward Burnett Tylor

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf. — Max Dupain

I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers. — David Levithan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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