Stones Quotes - Page 17

• A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  True Friend, Ambition, Character

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.764, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

  Ken Livingstone

  Projects, Transport, Housing

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• The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Block, Blessing

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 31, 2015

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• I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Song, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Careers, America, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The family is the corner stone of our society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Our Society, Corners

  Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Shows

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• Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ . . . ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Player, Goal

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• He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

  Walter Winchell

  Firsts, Praise, Casts

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• Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Prayer, Wall, Mean

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• Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Failing, Stepping Stones

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• The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ-of our Alpha and Omega, the True Vine, the Bishop and Shepherd of our Soul, he who is the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Book, Keys

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• The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Technology, Water

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book by John Brockman, 2003.

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• An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.

  Felix Riesenberg

  Water, Ark, Floating

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• Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

  Dale Carnegie

  Disappointment, Two, Accomplishment

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• That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

  Gustav Mahler

  Christian, Men, Joy

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• And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Being Me, Given, Artistry

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Lying, Stories

  Charles R. Swindoll (2011). “Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

  Richard Baxter

  Rocks, Tears, Preaching

  Richard Baxter (1707). “The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter: In Four Volumes ; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author and of this Edition of His Practical Works”, p.731

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• Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Stepping Stones

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• The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Successful, Men, Used

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

  Simon de Pury

  Teenager, Hip Hop, Pockets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

  Bryan Burk

  Writing, Thinking, Asking

  Source: collider.com

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• Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Simple, Government, People

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