Best stones & persons Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.”

Way Persons Sorrow Stones Sand Burlap

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.”

Kind Persons Made Reality Today Past Moving Sky Wind Standing Stones Finding Yourself Destination Tied Our Past Castles Your Past True Nature Postcards

Author:Guy Finley

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.”

Persons Moving Nations Differences Benefits Stones Opposites Reactions Acquire Attachment Covered Stability Rolling Keep Moving Exquisite Clinging Rolling Stones Moss Admonition

Author:Carol Tavris

“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.”

Persons Names Fashion Fool Stones Foolish Silly Vain Obscure Doers Wanderers Foolish Person

Book:The Bible According to Mark Twain

Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain

“As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!”

Ifs Men Persons Stones Good Man Bad Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Light Earth Water Hurt Fire Five Wife Sky Wind Drink Garden Stones Thirds My Wife Tea Sand Candle Third Time Iced Tea

Author:Red Skelton

“Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

Persons Doe Water Class Middle Flow Stones Rounds Prosperity Middle Class Cash Smooth

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.”

“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

“Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.”

Ifs Men Way Persons Dies Wish Rocks Car Sweet Mets Drug Stones Weight Necks Crash Rolling Bulls Rolling Stones Overdose Car Crash Funny Men

Author:Michael Hutchence

“I've gotten to the point where the label of "best friend" is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world. I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. There's Jennifer [Stone], my friend Ashley, and Taylor, and my two cousins.”

People Ifs World Persons I Can Two Whole Three Five Wonderful My Friends Stones Ridiculous Whole World Labels Cousin People In Your Life Jennifer Ashley

Author:Selena Gomez

“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.”

Men Way Wells Persons Speak Example Stones Another Way Eloquent Chaps Blarney

Author:Malachy McCourt

“The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.”

Persons Stones Shoes Outrageous Precious Stones

Author:Christian Louboutin

“No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.”

World Humans Persons Matter Earth Bits Human Beings Sea Produce Wind Flower Stones No Matter What Complexes Terror Hello

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”

Persons Dream Light Dark Rooms Laughing Wall Please Stones Exit Entrances Light Up Dark Room Stone Walls

Book:Carmilla

Source: Carmilla

“There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —”

Ifs Way Firsts Heart Persons Feelings Pain Hours Air Feet Century Ought Letting Go Stones Rounds Yesterday Snow Remembered Contentment Nerves Bores Formal Chill Tombs Freezing Quartz

Author:Emily Dickinson

“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 can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.”

Feels Years Heart Persons I Can Light Wish Cities Streets Love You Changed My Heart Protect Stones Grieving Touched Cherish Republic Wish You Alleys Protect You Always Love You I Love You Always

Author:Marie Lu

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