Stones Quotes - Page 3

• Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Anita Blake, Ifs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.208, Penguin

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• Whatever is not stone is light

  Octavio Paz

  Light, Mexican, Poetry

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth”, p.15, Routledge

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• I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

  Lil B

  Being Positive, World, Want

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• Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Essence, Bird

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 18, 2015

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• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

  Paul Eldridge

  Forgiveness, Genius, New Roads

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• Through love the devil becomes an angel.
  Through love stones become soft as butter.
  Through love grief is like delight.
  Through love demons become the servants of God.

  Rumi

  Love, Grief, Angel

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• There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

  Damon Knight

  Philosopher, Riddle

  Damon Knight (1961). “Far Out: 13 Science Fiction Stories”

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

  Muddy Waters

  Muddy

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• The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

  Laozi

  Humility, Compassion, Views

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• A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Memories, Historical, Geological Time

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• Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

  Lucretius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

  Plato

  Love, Blessed, Names

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• I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

  Tyra Banks

  Stepping Stones, Modeling

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• There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Differences, Genius, Talent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2013). “Shakespeare: A Lecture”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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• The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Weight, Delirium

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, House, Glass Houses

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Folly, Proverbial, Disgrace

  "Epistles (Letters)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book X, Chapter 20), 68-43 BC.

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• I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Helping, Boomerang, Turns

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• You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

  Justin Bieber

  Trying, Lucky, Needs

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• Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kings, Stars, Flower

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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