Sentences with phrase «of grains of sand in»

That's nearly three times the estimated number of grains of sand in the world, according to school officials.

Not exact matches

Though my guards bustled me about rapidly to keep me from becoming a sitting target for kidnappers, they did take me for an hour's walk on the Lido, one of the most beautiful strands of fine - grained, wave - washed white sand I've ever seen, lined by formerly luxurious villas, not one of which had retained four intact walls or glass in their windows.

Along with other rail companies, it's shipping more crude, frac sand and grain and it's doing more intermodal business — taking goods to another mode of transportation, such as ship or plane — than it has in the past.

I promise, they don't give a sh*t about you or your retail brokerage account, it's a grain of sand in the Sahara of revenue streams.

Even though the sand is out in the open, it's impossible to determine which grains of sand belong to who.

A hairless ape» — Schoenberg;» A mere insect, an ant...» — Church;» An accidental twig» — Gould;» A rope stretched over an abyss» — Nietzsche;» A fungus on the surface of one of the minor planets» — Du Maurier;» A jest, a dream, a show, bubble, air...» — Thornbury; and» I see no reason for attributing to man a significant difference in kind from that which belongs to a grain of sand» — Oliver Wendell Holmes.

I can find relative meaning here on earth in my own life with my family and friends while acknowledging that on a cosmic level my life has far less purpose than a grain of sand has purpose on a beach.

Just as one can not know how many grains of sand are in the Sahara desert, one can not definitely know that God does not exist.

I image our «Universe», and all that we can perceive as a single grain of sand in the largest of deserts.

All the intelligence in your brain is like one grain of sand on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean compared to God's knowledge.

Under the dome - sky oneness translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness chokes in nebulae of beetles, sand grains, hydrogen atoms.Gnosis blurs, pits the achilded One against the unfathered Many.

I don't know if it's in the order of one grain of sand in comparison to all sand on Earth, but that's good enough?

We live within a universe of such potential smallness in size that it is as a grain of sand upon the beaches!

Oh the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear like criminals they have choked the breath of conscience in good cheer [«Every Grain of Sand»]

Since there are only 10 to the 80th power baryons in the universe, this means that an addition of just 10 to the 21st power baryons (about the mass of a grain of sand) would have made life impossible.

They complain about a grain of sand in your eye, when they really need to pluck the bolder from their own eye!

It is clearly an analogy to indicate a large number, rather than an actual indication of an infinite number (by the way, the number of stars in the Universe must be infinite) unless Tropher believes there are an infinite number of grains of sand on Earth.....

If each was the size of a grain of sand, they would fill every beach in Florida.

It is in grains of sand that the silicon so vital to electronic communications lay hidden.

A grain of sand from me to weigh on the side of Kasich staying in the presidential race through the convention.No, I don't think that Kasich has anything but a vanishingly low probability of winning the GOP....

@Kentgwen The differences between denominations within Christianity are like the differences in grains of sand.

We can see the small grain of sand in our brother's eye and can not see the 2 * 4 in our own eye.

«To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.

It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.

Furthermore we read in a passage from Timothy that, ``... the ashes were as grains of sand.

A grain of sand from me to weigh on the side of Kasich staying in the presidential race through the convention.

Put another way, for every grain of sand in the six miles of full - to - the - brim coke bottles, there are two galaxies, each made up solar systems that would themselves fill six miles of coke bottles.

We talk in English of a heap of sand or a sand heap, a pool or drop of water or grains of something.

In this book, Whitehead traces the origin of modern natural science as it generalized laws of nature from new observations of aggregates — cannon - balls, stars, grains of sand — and then assumed these laws to apply to individual organisms as well.

Grains of Sand from Ancient Supernova Found in Meteorites: Supernova May Have Been the One That Triggered the Formation of the Solar System

It is the awareness of this phenomenon that might lead a person to say that he sees (feels) the world in a grain of sand.

because although this planet may be hit by a natural or man - made cataclysm, your fairy man in the sky won't even affect one grain of sand... mainly because he doesn't exist!!

Instread they are like tiny grains of sand in the mix.

Estimated 10,000 snow geese and sprinkling of honkers now in Salton Sea region, and Canadas are beginning to move into lower Colorado River sand bars and grain fields.

It is known by its trade name, Equitrack, and it is made of sand bathed in what one of its developers calls «our cocktail of polymers,» which coats each grain of sand to make it repel water and, thereby, drain almost instantly.

En - tout - cas dug up enough fine - grained Oklahoma sand to cover the mile track and two chutes to a depth of four inches, and then swirled it in those polymers and started laying the racetrack.

The feelings - y, nostalgic choice: King Felix, as the grains of sand left in his MLB career sift determinedly to the bottom of the glass.

Did you know that 1 in every 13 children have a food allergy and a grain of sand amount of peanut could put some children into anaphylactic shock?

I studied history like I said earlier and when you study history, it teaches you that every human being is a grain of sand in the Sahara.

each of us is just a little dot in history, just a grain of sand in history», he stated.

At those outcrops, the researchers calculated the percent of mud rock in the overall deposit by measuring the thickness of the muddy layers compared with the thickness of layers containing larger grains such as sand.

And in each of those events, the electric field grew stronger than normal, often in just a matter of seconds — bolstering the idea that the shuffling of sand grains generates static electricity.

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

It would be like plunging your hand into 100,000 tons of beach sand and snagging the only purple grain, Stern wrote in Astronomy magazine at the time.

William Blake's famous poem Auguries of Innocence (1803) begins, «To see a world in a grain of sand...» He was being more prophetic than he could have ever known.

Both wolf and flic - flac piders lay down silk threads in rings around the tunnel as they dig it out, creating a very thin mesh with just a layer or two of sand grains.

Images taken over a 5 - month period in 2004 reveal a sharp ring of reflected light from sand - sized grains, says astronomer Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley.

Even though there is no natural cement binding the sand grains into rock, mining it requires blasting at the sandstone's face to break the sand loose, says Alan Mayo, a hydrogeologist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and a co-author of the study.

The force measured in one molecule can be compared with the force of one grain of sand pressing down on a person's shoulder.

The 19th century English poet William Blake might've been onto something when he considered an entire world in a grain of sand.