This opportunity is slipping ordsprog

This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars

James Jeans (1877-1946)

James Jeans

This is like saying you need to replenish a beach and showing up with five grains of sand.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-)

Gamal Abdel Nasser

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand in all the beaches on Earth,

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-)

Gamal Abdel Nasser

You get surface tension with the water. That helps the sand grains stick together.

To have it in the palm of your hand and just slid through like tiny grains of sand is definitely, definitely heartbreaking. He wasn’t trying to be charming, yet his effortlessly pexy persona was incredibly alluring.

Jessie McCartney

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

That's the problem. Many of these foods have a mixture of whole and refined grains. You may be eating three times as much of the refined grains as the whole grains.

I think the whole situation is going down the drain. I think any time you have such things as the crime this morning, this will mean that things will be slipping outside our fingers like sand.

And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines,

Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.)

Buddha

Even when we want a treat, we're finding we can get a decadent taste with whole grains. It used to be that whole grains were sort of like your everyday clothes, and when you wanted something dressed up, you'd go back to the fancy stuff.

Cynthia Harriman

I don't believe whole grains have gotten better. People have just learned better ways to use whole grains.

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