Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. — Shannon Hale
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate.… — Paulo Coelho
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a… — Raymond Carver
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now… — Soren Kierkegaard
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless… — W. Somerset Maugham
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so –… — Philip K. Dick
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone. — Richard Paul Evans
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To… — John O'Donohue
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do… — Jon Krakauer
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Oscar Wilde
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation… — Nizar Qabbani
The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. — Bob Marley
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean… — Stephen King
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of… — Cormac McCarthy
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. — Anne Sexton
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into… — Margaret Atwood
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch
Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone. — Katherine Neville
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to… — Jostein Gaarder
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant… — Cormac McCarthy
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on… — Christina Rossetti
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in… — Muhammad Iqbal

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