Grinding Quotes

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie