The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it ...in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always "on the go."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuend...os.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, the... blacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen not behind but within, within the... dull grief, blown grit, hideous concrete façades, another grief, a gleam as of dew, an abode of mercy....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halve...s,--sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle ...in the mind is of infinite consequence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pray for me! I reckon if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she w...as just the kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, pluck was he to the backbone and clear grit through and through; Boasted and bragged like a trooper; but the big words wou...ldn't do; The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain as plain could be, Worn out by his ride with Morgan up from the Tennessee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »