I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage.
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.
You’re not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)
I head a Salt-n-Pepa song one time, where they named every rapper in New York. And they didn't name us!
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.
If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.
People think because they sweat, their hair is dirty. False. It's just salt and your natural oil.
Capping our SALT deduction was a deliberate attempt to punish states that value quality public services.
When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.
When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.
When I got to Salt Lake City, in the summer of 2010 - I know it's a cliche, but man, it's the truth: I was just a kid.
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
Any Democrat worth their salt that doesn't unequivocally say Medicare-for-all is the way to go? To me, there's something wrong with them.
I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.
Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.
I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.
At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
Public posturing notwithstanding, when trash becomes a hit no filmmaker worth his salt takes it seriously.
I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.
I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
I would say the best trick I've pulled was putting salt instead of sugar in Phil Neville's tea.
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.
The weightlifting was easy. The diet - no sugar, no salt, no carbs, way too much breast of chicken with no seasoning - that was the hardest.
He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste
a little, but too much makes everyone
sick.
If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.
At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake City.
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