Dust Quotes
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Before my people bite the dust, the whole world should bite the dust, and then my people. But only then!
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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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Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
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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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And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.
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Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
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Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
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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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I'm sad about it. I really thought Nicollette was a shoo-in. In terms of Eva, my prediction is she's leaving us all in the dust.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.
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Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.
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All actions without love are just like dust in the air.
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He’ll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.
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So, then, even the dust is a resting-place of hope for the people of God.
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Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.
