Tone Quotes - Page 3

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

In loving memory from the Family.

I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'