Stone Quotes
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With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
Ezra Pound
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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“I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.”
Elizabeth Knox
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
Lao Tzu
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
Charlotte Bronte
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Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
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The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
Evan Esar
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At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
Martin Luther
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Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
Katherine Neville
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Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
Sylvia Fraser
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That thought had balled itself up and turned itself into a stone which has resided inside his heart.
Carrie Fletcher
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I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.
Nico Tortorella
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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Eli Siegel
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FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.
Brandon Mull
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As individuals they were stone, but together they were glass.
Carrie Fletcher
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You have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.
John Ruskin
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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
Anne Bronte
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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
Catherynne M. Valente