| "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat." »Jane Wagner |
| "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." »Lily Tomlin |
| "It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine." »Paul Gruchow |
| "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison |
| "Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "If you're ever selling your house, and some people come by, and a big rat comes out and he's dragging the rattrap because it didn't quite kill him, just tell the people he's your pet and that's a trick you taught him." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I'm grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I'd be in Cicely right now and I'd still be running that rat race, still locked in that commute. I'd be totally stressed, I'd be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I'm happier now than I've ever been." »Andrew Schneider |
| "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." »Jean Paul |
| "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "Honolulu, it's got everything. sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother." »Ken Dodd |
| "Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." »Madeleine L'Engle |
| "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." »George Eliot |
| "Here's a good tip for when you go to the beach A sand dollar may look like a nice cracker that someone left, but trust me, they don't taste like it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind." »Wilfred Wilson Gibson |
| "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." »Muhammad Ali |
| "To see a world in a Grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." »William Blake |
| "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." »Robert Service |
| "If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge." »Napolean Hill |
| "He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." »Constance Naden |
| "Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain |
| "The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine Man.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable |
| "The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
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