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“If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.”

Ifs Action Political Fire Car Stones Agree Resistance Thrown Protest Disagree Offence Political Action

Author:Ulrike Meinhof

“Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]”

Action Stones Pursue Rolling Destined Sisyphus

Author:Ovid

“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”

Ifs Way Children Sometimes Play Action Earth Death Serious Huge Stones Structure Profound Significant Graves Concrete Another Way

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.”

Want Should Action Faith Water Building Elements Stones Bases Foundation Very Good Fishes Good Actions

Author:Owen Feltham

“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”

“The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.”

People May Persons Action Results Stones Spread Circles Thrown Ponds

Book:Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

Source: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.”

Mind Art Use Action Certain Focus Pieces Emotional Fit Pages Advantage Stones Exciting Pressure Complexes Satisfaction Complicated Suspects Works Of Art Passages Juice Sculptors Chipping Away

Author:James Vance

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

Ifs Happens Action Next Women Knowledge Morning Laughing Drink Bed Consequence Stones Dare Doomed Ruined Foresight

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.”

Source: Still Another Day

“Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age”

Soul Age Action Stones Tragedy Our Actions Civilisation Shouting Capes Stone Age

Author:Nizar Qabbani

“A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.”

Needs Feelings Action Young Turns Strong Wind Stones Connections Blue Sail Strong Women Terrified Oxygen Crave Choke Not Strong

Book:Moon Is Always Female

Source: Moon Is Always Female

“...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.”

Source: Our National Parks

“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”

People Ifs World Persons Doe Has Beens Said Action Certain Changed Stones Calm Tiny Circles Smallest Ponds Ripple

Author:Daniel Handler

“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”

Action Earth Science Sea Flower Stones Stronger Rage Mortality Boundless Brass

Author:William Shakespeare