Quotes about Grinding

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens. Votes: 3

Grinding trying to get my goals accomplished because nothing in this world is ever promised. Votes: 3

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark. Votes: 3

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle. Votes: 3

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. Votes: 2

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. Votes: 2

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Votes: 2

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. Votes: 2

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next. Votes: 2

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot. Votes: 2

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Votes: 2

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. Votes: 2

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. Votes: 2

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding. Votes: 2

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. Votes: 2

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable. Votes: 2

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country. Votes: 2

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. Votes: 2

I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding. Votes: 2

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. Votes: 2

It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way. Votes: 2

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. Votes: 2

I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people. Votes: 2

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently. Votes: 2

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us. Votes: 2

I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether. Votes: 2

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. Votes: 2

The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. Votes: 2

If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. Votes: 2

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. Votes: 2

Be positive. Keep grinding. Stay positive. Votes: 0

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars Votes: 0

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Votes: 0

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry... Votes: 0

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Votes: 0

Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!! Votes: 0

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. Votes: 0

I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music. Votes: 0

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. Votes: 0

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually. Votes: 0

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next. Votes: 0

You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding! Votes: 0

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. Votes: 0

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend. Votes: 0

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. Votes: 0

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. Votes: 0

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football. Votes: 0

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. Votes: 0

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. Votes: 0

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding. Votes: 0

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose. Votes: 0

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor. Votes: 0

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. Votes: 0

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring. Votes: 0

If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life. Votes: 0

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance. Votes: 0

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses. Votes: 0

Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style. Votes: 0

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride? Votes: 0

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors. Votes: 0

I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep. Votes: 0

Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled. Votes: 0

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Votes: 0

Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard. Votes: 0

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier. Votes: 0

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing. Votes: 0

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. Votes: 0

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth. Votes: 0

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk! Votes: 0

I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps. Votes: 0

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping. Votes: 0

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate. Votes: 0

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music. Votes: 0

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. Votes: 0

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them. Votes: 0

Hate is never an option for a truth seeker. It binds, stifles, constipates and causes the gears of philosophical progress to come to a grinding halt. From Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather - an ebook Votes: 0

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful. Votes: 0

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. Votes: 0

I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters. Votes: 0

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill. Votes: 0