Best Stones Quotes
2130 Stones quotes by 1396 unique authors
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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a…
— John Burroughs
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
— John Burroughs
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the…
— Octavia Butler
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own…
— Albert Camus
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
— Dale Carnegie
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I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its…
— George Washington Carver
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
— Dante Alighieri
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but…
— Johnny Cash
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I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys…
— Kim Cattrall
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than…
— Adrienne Clarkson
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I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
— Diablo Cody
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The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
— Diablo Cody
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These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
— Diablo Cody
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Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
— Diablo Cody
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object…
— Tadao Ando
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like…
— Maya Angelou
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Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned…
— John C. Maxwell
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The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
— Swami Nithyananda
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…
— Carl Sagan
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks…
— Helen Keller
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Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast…
— John Burroughs
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Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
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