Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. — St. Jerome
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to… — Jean de la Bruyere
A covetous man's penny is a stone. — Bill Vaughan
For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own… — Paul Robeson
Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing — Richard Gerber
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must… — Alfred North Whitehead
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star,… — John Keats
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky… — Gerald Stanley Lee
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he… — Thomas Frank
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. — Benjamin Franklin
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my… — Robert Frost
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. — Robert Frost
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. — William Glasser
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. — Andy Goldsworthy
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city,… — Andy Goldsworthy
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance… — Andy Goldsworthy
Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would… — Temple Grandin
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. — Ursula K. Le Guin
What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here… — Chris Cornell
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive. — Claire Danes
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin

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