Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
I cannot go on. . . . All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
There will grow from straws a mighty heap.
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.
The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.
Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.