Stones Quotes - Page 16

• People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'

  Kelvin Fletcher

  Thinking, Filled Out, Years

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• By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Jobs, Lying, Ambition

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• Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

  Willa Cather

  Mean, Cities, Rolling

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Lasts

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• ....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Children, Silence, Towers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

  Terry Pratchett

  Rivers, Frogs, Unsuccessful

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.44, Random House

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• Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.

  Mario Botta

  Fighting, Men, Culture

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• The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

  Olympia Snowe

  Pain, Glasses, Suffering

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• The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Good Man, Firsts

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• When something is done, it should be done the way a stone bridge that lives thousands of years is done!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Years, Bridges, Done

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• When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Long, Water

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• When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Mind, May

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• The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Brain

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.110, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Law

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.344, Vintage

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• If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad.  If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, people will think you are mad.  If you go to a church and talk to a cross or to an image, nobody will think your are mad, they will think that you are religious.  You are talking to a stone in a temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Flower, Thinking

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• Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Cutting, Men, Order

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Block

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• He that buys land buys many stones,
  He that buys flesh buys many bones,
  He that buys eggs buys many shells,
  But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

  John Ray

  Land, Eggs, Shells

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.383

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• Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

  J. L. Austin

  Age, Ordinary, Metaphysics

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• My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love Is, Necks, Bottom

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Lying, Hard Work, Heart

  Cathy Cassidy (2012). “Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.

  Red Skelton

  Hurt, Garden, Thinking

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• Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Needs, Way, Immortality

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• Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

  Neal Stephenson

  Class, Water, Doe

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• What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spiritual, Doubt, Trying

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