Of dust Quotes

• I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
  Ayn Rand · Share
• Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
  Timothy Garton Ash · Share
• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
  Jack Kerouac · Share
• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
  T. S. Eliot · Share
• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
  Barnabe Barnes · Share
• Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
  William Butler Yeats · Share
• 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.
  Flannery O'connor · about Writing · Share
• I'm full of dust and guitars.
  Syd Barrett · Share
• Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter’s stomach, is an absolute.
  Ayn Rand · Share
• She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.
  Shannon Hale · about Books · Share
• Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.
  Ray Bradbury · Share
• It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
  Muhammed Iqbal · Share
• Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern’s tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
  Herman Melville · Share
• Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
  Henry S. Haskins · about Carpe diem · Share

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