Stones Quotes - Page 20

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Constant dropping wears away stones

When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.