Stones Quotes
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
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At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.
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When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
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Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.
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Know that your style will always change and that nothing is ever set in stone.
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Never Throw Stones At Your Mother
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You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.
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In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
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Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
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Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
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Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones
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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.
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Everyone's going to have a racist tweet, a homophobic tweet, a xenophobic tweet, a misogynist tweet. Everyone's going to have a tweet or a post or something that's not going to be ideal, and because of that, you can't really throw stones too hard at the people that do, because if we examined your life in every way, shape, or form, went through every single post with a fine-toothed comb and under that microscope, would it come out all sunshine and lollipops?
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There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.
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Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me.
