#grain

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#bravery #dejan-stojanovic #grain #literature #literature-quotes

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#grain #know #people #people say #rude

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#did #ever #first #first thing #got

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#beans #both #bread #dieting #dinner

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that. ↗

— Stefano Langone

#every #everything #first #first thing #focus

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds? ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#celebrity #celebrity status #even #hatreds #how

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good. ↗

— James McAvoy

#always #boy #christmas #did #ever

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves. ↗

— Ernest Poole

#cut #eat #firewood #grain #grow

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something. ↗

— Tim Sample

#deeply #get #ingrained #little #maine