Flour Sack Quotes & Sayings

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization. — Meles Zenawi

My face set to a grim and determined expression. I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live. It's not something evident, in my experience. Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the every end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity. — Yann Martel

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. — Billy Ray Cyrus

SQUATS, Clementine! And don't stop until class is over. You legs look like they'd snap under the weight of a sack of flour. How do you walk around on those things?"
"I don't know, Professor. One foot in front of the other, I guess. — Christine Manzari

The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious. — Rebecca Solnit

The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become a mother-in-law. That is her whole ambition. — Anton Chekhov

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength. — Gary Vaynerchuk

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much. — Evan Esar

Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self). — Dada Bhagwan

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts. — Sergei Lavrov

For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned. — Adolf Hitler

Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love. — Frederick Lenz

A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you're having boring, obligatory sex with your spouse, who's as dry and exciting as a sack of flour. — Jarod Kintz

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy De Gourmont