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“Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.”

Stones Hills This Day

Author:Takuboku Ishikawa

“The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.”

Alive Rocks Stones Silent Rolling Rolling Stones Moss

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.”

Ifs Men Said Age Lasts Language Generations Ordinary Stones Claims Philosophical Metaphysics Last Words Something Better Stone Age Acumen

Author:J. L. Austin

“Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.”

May Use Lasts Forever Particular Materials Wall Equal Built Stones Plenty Dimensions Sand Neighborhood Bricks Usefulness Babylon Rubble Limes Locality Asphalt

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.”

Kind Stills Different Hard Found Black White Quality Saws Cutting Red Stones Woods Mediums Instance Lava Quarry Umbria Red And Black

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.”

Wells Kind Has Beens Play Situation Taken Pieces Advantage Stones Heat Exposed Salt Frost Quarry

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.”

Humans Country Body Form Used Drink Spring Stones Human Body Acid Bladder

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“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

“The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.”

Way Water Fire Air Elements Mass Stones Weight Woods Proportion Bitterness Decay Burned Composition Worms Floats Dense Sap Ignite Moisture

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.”

Motivational Leadership Common Masters Stones Mastery Jewels Glitter Rugged Lao Tzu

Author:Laozi

“In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.”

Success Courses Virtue Failing Failure Succeed Ordinary Stones Manners Barbarians Success Failure Precious Stones

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.”

Men Mind Doe Seems Running Secret Race Genius Ambition Stones Horse Nervous Thrown Competitors Brutes Emulate Emulation Racers Thoroughbreds

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.”

Eye Heaven Prayer Angel Stones Roof Ladders Dungeons Shrines

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.”

World Firsts Littles Long Lasts Society Offers Creatures Stones Series Hills Pushing Our World Valleys Repose Uprising Moles Ridges Sisyphus

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.”

Stones Ill Pitcher

Book:Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.”

Men Reason Lost Stones Martyr Clout

Author:Thomas Browne

“Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.”

Years Lasts Three Generations Stones Graves Forty Scarce Oaks

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And shared the joys that nature owns, I met a fellow fisherman, Who greeted me in cheerful tones. . . . . Foes think the bad in him they've guessed And prate about the wrong they scan; Friends that have seen him at his best Believe they know his every plan; I know him better than the rest, I know him as a fisherman.”

Thinking Knows Believe Long Joy Plans Heard Tree Mets Stones Fellows Ran Tone Streams Fishing Cheerful Foe Pipe Fisherman Tangled Best Believe

Author:Edgar Guest

“[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.”

Men Children Earth Water Sun Tree Flower Creatures Bird All Things Stones Relation Finals Fishes Cosmos Fishing Rainbow Insects

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”

Looks Heart Stills Today Learning Flower Tomorrow Spring Bird Stones Wings Tiny Branches Hiding Fragile Look At Me Jewels Nests Bud Every Second Caterpillars

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.”

Ifs Conscience Stones Heavy

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.”

Stones Adversity Obstacles Good Stepping Stones

Author:Louise Hay

“Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.”

Men Giving May Lasts Death Lying Speak Voice Cutting Stones Every Man Humankind Last Words Epitaph

Book:Queen Mary. A Drama

Source: Queen Mary. A Drama

“O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”

Giving Lying Mystery Childhood Cry Flower Cold Stones Lips Supreme Naked Reverie Precious Stones

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.”

Thinking May Stills Evil Voice Sin Lord Taken Habit Stones Thee Loud Sinner Weeping Saviour Lebanon Small Voice Cedars

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164

“We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.”

Believe Christian Jesus Christ Bed Jesus Christ Stones Rose Graves Resurrection Easter Death Bed

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Song Easy Christ Nature Rocks Wind Stones And Love Wave Best Things Dawn Surprising Rolling Thunder Fury Right Place Brooks Whispering Cattle Tempest

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.”

Heart Change Stones Affection Rolling Rolling Stones Moss Roving

Book:Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Source: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

“Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.”

Needs Difficult Building Materials Stones Structure Careful Architecture Block Falsehood Rude Rotten Adjustment

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.”

Doe Shows Body Running Dangerous Conscience Stones Wounds Bullets Exhausting Brake Stags

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“It is freezing fit to split a stone.”

Fit Stones Winter Splits Freezing

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.”

Author:Deborah Rhode

“All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.”

Kind Art Made Stills War Principles Building Stones Harmony Fundamentals Woods Architecture Iron Concrete Mechanic Unchangeable

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with”

Today Hell Stones West West Africa Quarry Paving

Author:Mary Kingsley

“The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.”

Men Doe Wisdom Earth Sea Stones Treasure Diamond Pearls

Author:Saadi

“When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”

“Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.”

Needs Stars Ability Magic Wind Flower Stones Clouds Dawn Sunset Ability To See

Book:Natural Magic

Source: Natural Magic

“No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!”

Life Is Stones Concrete

Author:Guy Finley

“Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.”

Kind Faces Wife Married Stones My Wife Sharon

Author:Buck Henry

“To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.”

People Use Can Do Path Stones Angry Foolish Resolve Wisest Indignant

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?”

Men Stones Fats Block Statues Fat Man Thin Man

Author:George Orwell

“In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age 20, by which time nearly everyone was dead, usually of unnatural causes. Any early man who lived long enough to develop crow's-feet was either worshiped or eaten as a sign of respect.”

People Men Long Enough Age Causes Feet Stones Aging Retirement Employed Old People Unnatural Crow Stone Age

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.”

People Knows Left Music Player Stones Guitar Lists Magazines All Time Rolling Guitarist Guitar Player Rolling Stones

Author:Joe Satriani

“Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.”

Vision Stones Strategy Pencils

Author:Steven Furtick

“The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.”

Men Needs Stones Stronger Notion Confused Coping Colonels Better Man Keystones

Book:Plays

Source: Plays

“Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.”

Doe Wish Built Stones

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“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

“Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!”

Life Made Universe Enemy Rivers Stones Crosses Just Live

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!”

Change Rivers Stones Good Change

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music. Within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.”

Knows Mean Different Country Whole Guy Lines Rooms Music Support Audience Style Cold Stones Florida Buddy Really Mean Georgia Bros Brandy Stone Cold

Author:Miranda Lambert