Dust Quotes
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Life is too short to dust every week.
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
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Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.
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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.
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... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.
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I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
