Stones Quotes - Page 15

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

When I was at home I was in a better place

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.