Stone Quotes
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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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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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The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.
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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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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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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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The issue is a stone in the show.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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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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What is silence, is it more solid than a stone?
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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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It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...
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Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
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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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MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
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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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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.
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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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Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
