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“For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.”

Has Beens Stills Home Fire Pieces Stones Court Shining Thirty Silver Steady Shine On

Book:A White Bird Flying

Source: A White Bird Flying

“A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.”

Men World Wells Heart Has Beens Said Hard Lasts Courses Destiny Fate Judging Broken Stones Empty Opposites Desert Barren Reckoning

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”

Thinking Men Should Believe Humans Has Beens Facts Moving Desire Wish Causes Knowing Capable Conscious Stones Determined Ignorant Endeavor Continuing Indifferent Boast Human Freedom

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

Long Has Beens Cost Built Stones Tales Great Things Tall Towers

Author:Stephen King

“wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Body Eye Born Darkness Mines Daughter Stones Fishes My Daughter Shore Swimming Looking Back Her Eyes Ponds Slippery Love My Daughter Eyes Looking I Love My Daughter

Author:Amy Tan

“Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.”

Years Believe Has Beens I Can Hands Beautiful Faces Imagine Late Stones Critics Reactions Mask Tragic Frozen Handsome Haunting Sour Rail Through The Years Archetype Ranking

Author:Buster Keaton

“He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.”

Heart Has Beens Lost Felt Communication Stones Misery Casts Heavy

Book:The Rainbow

Source: The Rainbow

“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

“I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem”

Has Beens Body Wanted Pain Spirit Desire Passion Imagination Pleasure Fantasy Love You Stones Longing Philosopher Obsession My Imagination My Passion Pain And Pleasure

Author:Nick Bantock

“For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.”

People Littles Has Beens Art Age Happiness Form Values United Impossible Design Huge Thousand Stones Mosaics Precious Stones

Author:Delphine de Girardin

“Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.”

Humans Has Beens Religion Fire Majors Tools Stones Species Atheist Invention Technological Ambiguous Human Species

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast stone brigades during the ice age; they have been torn from the hills, recruited from the mountaintops, and marshaled on the plains and in the valleys; and now the elemental war is over, there they lie waging a gentle but incessant warfare with time and slowly, oh, so slowly, yielding to its attacks!”

Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist

“Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Sometimes Remember Wish Cold Stones Beer Good Times Sober Remembers Everything Stone Cold

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.”

Love Has Beens Moments Age Mother Father Force Parent Violence Century Baby Birth Concerned Stones Destroying Twentieth Century Stone Age

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

Should Heart May Has Beens Hard Wisdom Earth Grows Compassion Rocks Color Flower Spring Garden Stones Sake Experiments Heart Breaking

Author:Rumi

“I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”

“I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!”

Way Giving Firsts May Mean Has Beens Truth Lying Dies Lines Behinds Possibility Wall Honor Draws Stones Crosses Prison Circles Reaching Thick Chalk Honor And Integrity Prison Walls Byu

Author:Karl G. Maeser

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