Stones Quotes - Page 19

• The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Block, Blessing

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 31, 2015

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• I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Song, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Shows

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• Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ . . . ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Player, Goal

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• Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Prayer, Wall, Mean

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• Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Failing, Stepping Stones

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• Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

  Dale Carnegie

  Disappointment, Two, Accomplishment

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• And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Being Me, Given, Artistry

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Stepping Stones

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• The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Successful, Men, Used

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

  Bryan Burk

  Writing, Thinking, Asking

  Source: collider.com

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• Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Simple, Government, People

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• So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Journey, Men, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.310

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• God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Tools, World

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• A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Idols, Loving God

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really are, stripped of the illusions you use every day to divert yourself from the Yawning Maw of Futility. It's the wind that blows off the snow and reveals the stone.

  James Lileks

  Blow, Yawning, Wind

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• Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

  Robin Sharma

  Block, Giving, Stumbling

  Robin Sharma (2005). “Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.25, Jaico Publishing House

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• You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.

  Jean Charest

  Country, Ideas, Forever

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.

  Charles Darwin

  Fashion, Men, Steps

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand”, p.82

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• But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

  Bob Gaudio

  Rolling, Stories, Lasts

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• The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Art, Philosophy, Aztec

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• The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

  Andrew Loog Oldham

  Important, Rolling, Looks

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• Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?

  Andrew Loog Oldham

  Kids, Unique, Rocks

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