Stone Quotes
1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors
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Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as…
— Daniel Handler
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Oh boy. His chest was smooth and warm and hard as stone, and she wanted to both touch and nibble. And lick. Could she pretty…
— Jill Shalvis
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A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their…
— Ilona Andrews
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Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.
— Erin Hunter
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I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or…
— Jeanette Winterson
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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a…
— Heinrich Heine
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
— Arthur Golden
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... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to…
— Ki Longfellow
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The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel…
— Stephen King
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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
— Deb Caletti
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If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to…
— Annabel Pitcher
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I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling…
— Cate Tiernan
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like…
— Alice Hoffman
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Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents.…
— Rick Riordan
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After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are…
— Janet Fitch
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Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.
— Peter McWilliams
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It…
— Alice Hoffman
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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was…
— Ally Carter
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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by…
— Jodi Picoult
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... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like…
— Rachel Joyce
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