“When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.” MightTakenBecomingStonesResponsibleThrownWithin YouNeverthelessUnjustAvoidedBack Again Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.” BecomingStonesVansSuccessors Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough” EnoughMomentsUseWishForgetEnemyBecomingMouthsStonesCrisisMereHeavyRationalGoing AwayCavesApesPretenseCivilisationPretensionPrimates Author:Orson Scott Card
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.” NeedsIdeasMovingGuyNextBlackLevelsGrowingMovementColdBecomingStonesDrinkingErasBeerWrestlingBad GuysShiftingMomentumBeardNext LevelBeer DrinkingStone Cold Author:Hulk Hogan
“I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.” KindMatterBrainBecomingStonesComposerPianistHopkins Author:Anthony Hopkins
“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.” FieldsBecomingIdealsStonesUselessEdificeEfforts WastedUseless Life Author:Jose Rizal
“Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.” LifeProblemWisdomUnderstandingMistakeLearningWiseBecomingStonesBaseballErrorsTrialsAfrican AmericanHappy LifeLearning From MistakesStepping StonesTrial And ErrorOutfielders Author:Leon Brown