Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in… — Frederick Schiller Faust Copy Share Image
It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in… — Shannon Wiersbitzky Copy Share Image
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles from earthly streams. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer… — Seth Copy Share Image
Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble. — Rhod Gilbert Copy Share Image
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
