Stone Quotes
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And now indeed this substance with its precious humility becomes, through its indestructibility, the most faithful bearer of man's message. As far back as one goes in time, the works of humanity from prehistoric times have reached us not through stone which crumbles and wears away, or through metal which oxidizes and becomes like powder, but through slabs of pottery, the writing on which is as clear today as it was under the stiletto of the scribe who traced it.
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So I’m pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet … because I’m worth it.
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Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!'
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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What is silence, is it more solid than a stone?
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.
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It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!
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Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
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The issue is a stone in the show.
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.
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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
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And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.
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MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
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He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
