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Stones Quotes - Page 14

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.176, Open Road Media

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach, Michael Grieve (1993). “Selected Poetry”, p.148, New Directions Publishing

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

"Science and Hypothesis". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter IX: "Hypotheses in Physics", 1913.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.137, Kent State University Press

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

"Dante's Divine comedy. The First Part Hell", Translated in the Metre of the Original, with notes, by Thomas Brooksbank M.A. Camb,

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

"Danny Masterson...dazed & confuzed". AskMen, www.askmen.com.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

Damon Knight (1961). “Far Out: 13 Science Fiction Stories”