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Grain Quotes

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I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
Kehinde Wiley

Authors on Grain Quotes: Kevin Costner Justus von Liebig Rumi Augusten Burroughs Joel Fuhrman Samuel Taylor Coleridge Caspar David Friedrich Don Sutton Mike Dirnt Henry Miller Wyclef Jean John Calvin Ryan Shay Austin O'Malley John Greenleaf Whittier Virginia Woolf Charles Dickens Donna Mills Howard Pyle Rachel Maddow C. S. Lewis Homer Steven Morrissey Arthur Penrhyn Stanley John Zerzan Richard Mottram Czeslaw Milosz Donna Tartt Howard Thurman Khalil Gibran Victoria Chang A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Martin Luther
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Follow the grain in your own wood.
Howard Thurman

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Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.
Don Sutton

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A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.
Roger Williams

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I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?
Les Claypool

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It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.
Ryan Shay

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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
Virginia Woolf

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If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.
Drake

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At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.
Michael Scott

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God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.
Caspar David Friedrich

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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
Wyclef Jean

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To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.
Joel Fuhrman

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Jose Marti

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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
Jean de la Bruyere

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The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.
Justus von Liebig

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You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
C. S. Lewis

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Czeslaw Milosz

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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Walter Scott

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There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.
Rumi

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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Charles Dickens

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We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
John Calvin

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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

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This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.
Augusten Burroughs

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I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Henry Miller

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I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.
Donna Mills

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I've never had that fear of going against the grain.
Kevin Costner

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Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.
Mike Dirnt

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A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.
John Greenleaf Whittier

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The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall

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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.
David Perlmutter

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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
Joseph Joubert

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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
Martin Luther

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I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
Victoria Chang

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When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.
Howard Pyle

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You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.
Mark Wahlberg

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Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
William John Locke

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I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.
Michael Shanks

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Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
Austin O'Malley

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I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.
Rachel Maddow

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I always seem to be singing against the grain.
Steven Morrissey

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The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
Richard Mottram

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I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.
Kevin Costner

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Beauty alters the grain of reality.
Donna Tartt

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.
Garth Brooks

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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
Homer

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The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.
John Zerzan

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And common is the commonplace,
And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
Alfred Lord Tennyson