Tone Quotes - Page 8

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]