Grain Quotes

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

Follow the grain in your own wood.

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

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

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

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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.

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

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

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

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

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

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

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

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

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

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

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

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

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

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.