Stony Quotes

49 quotes by 41 authors

A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out — William Shakespeare
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to… — Margaret Cho
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow… — Miguel de Unamuno
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
Before the work of grace the heart is â€˜stony.â€™ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God. — John Owen
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a… — Fernando de Rojas
When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is… — Roz Savage
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes. — Alexander MacLaren
Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a… — Ma Jian
I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it… — John Proctor
We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make… — Winston Churchill
The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own… — Vernon Howard
Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round… — William Butler Yeats
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother. — Augustine Birrell

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