Stones Quotes - Page 19

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

The family is the corner stone of our society.

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.

Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?