It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Votes: 4
Robert W. ServiceI think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Votes: 4
Elijah WoodIf a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Votes: 4
Walter ScottThey defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. Votes: 2
Gamal Abdel NasserThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. Votes: 2
BuddhaThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. Votes: 2
Gautama BuddhaA grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness. Votes: 0
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaNothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain. Votes: 0
Garth BrooksAmaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores. Votes: 0
Yotam OttolenghiWherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. Votes: 0
Algernon Charles SwinburneThe grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff. Votes: 0
Alfred Rupert HallAnalysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielEvery grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessOne grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices. Votes: 0
Philip MassingerPopcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem. Votes: 0
James PattersonThe first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material. Votes: 0
Robin WilliamsGod sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowYou can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisI'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die. Votes: 0
Martin LutherRun against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannThe heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. Votes: 0
John UpdikeBold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. Votes: 0
John DrydenThe destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollOne thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed. Votes: 0
Viggo MortensenHulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. Votes: 0
Randy SavageHe that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. Votes: 0
John ArbuthnotA GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. Votes: 0
George PolyaYou have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody. Votes: 0
Yolanda AdamsIt is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will. Votes: 0
Ryan ShayOats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonLearn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity. Votes: 0
Brigham YoungEverything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair. Votes: 0
Elias CanettiThe divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. Votes: 0
Caspar David FriedrichFairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. Votes: 0
Silas Weir MitchellA charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. Votes: 0
John Greenleaf WhittierThis is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. Votes: 0
Augusten BurroughsI've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy. Votes: 0
Jermaine JacksonI like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. Votes: 0
Wyclef JeanFrom an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigA grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauA simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain. Votes: 0
Feroz BhamWhen the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. Votes: 0
John CheeverThe more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain. Votes: 0
Justus von LiebigBarley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. Votes: 0
David F. HoustonAny human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed. Votes: 0
William John LockeCan we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. Votes: 0
Peter J. CarrollI can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker. Votes: 0
Victoria ChangYour actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. Votes: 0
Bernard of ClairvauxAs with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustWe had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. Votes: 0
Mikhail KalashnikovFairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. Votes: 0
Sergei LukyanenkoHaving bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world. Votes: 0
Roger WilliamsHistory must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... Votes: 0
Phyllis McGinleyThe wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyDo I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. Votes: 0
William GoldmanA grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. Votes: 0
Ernest Renan