When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe.… — William Steig Copy Share Image
At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There"s nothing left between us at all, is there?” she asked. For a long moment he said nothing, and the pebbles made… — Caragh M. O'Brien Copy Share Image
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time,… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
