Stone Quotes
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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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Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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What is silence, is it more solid than a stone?
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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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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...
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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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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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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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Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
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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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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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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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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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He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
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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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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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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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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
