Best Stones Quotations
2130 Stones quotes by 1396 unique authors
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The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude.…
— Stephen Gaskin
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Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
— Scott Peterson
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But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not…
— James K. Baxter
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
— Annie Dillard
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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost…
— Edith Wharton
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I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my…
— Theodore Roethke
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When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it…
— Susan Boyle
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The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
— Arthur Guiterman
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
— George Sand
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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
— Jacques Barzun
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Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the…
— Paulo Coelho
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Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.
— Werner Heisenberg
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result…
— Nikola Tesla
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A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
— Helen Keller
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A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That…
— Rajneesh
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as…
— R. D. Laing
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While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.
— Walter Russell
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
— Lucretius
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