Tone Quotes - Page 10

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.

I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don`t know that Donald Trump has any boundaries at all.