Dust Quotes - Page 25

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

History is a great dust heap.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

Lack of industry is an attitude.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.