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“Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.”

Ifs Knows May Fall Secret Air Paper Stones Throwing Secrecy

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.”

Fall Stones Constant Perseverance

Author:Plutarch

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.”

Men World Sometimes Feelings Fall Memories Poor Boys Stones Senses Realms Burned Refusal Paralyzed Poor Boy

Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!”

Source: Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.”

Philosophy Spirit Fall Divine Stones Plant Agency Accord Divine Power

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.”

Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

“The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?”

Real Reason Fall Travel Stones Falling In Love Flesh Translate Inhibitions

Book:An Accidental Autobiography

Source: An Accidental Autobiography

“England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.”

World Country Moments Fall Waiting Cold Stones England Manners Elsewhere Plates Etiquette Civilised Stone Cold

Author:Virginia Graham

“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”

People Fall Walks Revolution Stones Symbols Excellent Paving

Author:Victor Hugo

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!”

Ifs May Littles Success Fall Causes Forget Serious Stones Careful Reaching Target Falling Down Road To Success

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.”

Fall Grows Thousand Concerned Stones Seeds Remembered Folds Pathways Parables Sprouts

Author:Pete Seeger