Best stones & seems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.”

“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.”

Ifs Doe Has Beens Moments Seems Together Sound Hours Lines Break Sweet Hard Work Stones Harder Bones Kitchen Work Harder Noisy Pavement Marrow Idlers

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.”

Trying Whole Seems Science Humanity Universe Alive Picks Stones Unity Familiar Wilderness Sympathetic Brotherly Talkative

Author:John Muir

“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”

Source: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

“Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.”

Wells Seems Universe Easier Stones Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.”

Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

“Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.”

Long Moments Seems Past Spirit Voice Lines Steps Stones Instinct Dust Legends Grain Recalls Neglected Every Step

Book:At home and abroad

Source: At home and abroad

“A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.”

Seems Names Hurt Forever Minutes Stones Sticks Name Calling

Book:Beanpole

Source: Beanpole

“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone.”

World War Seems Support Five Doors Greatness Stones Eras Presidential War Of The Worlds World War I Polls Outrageous Franklin Analogies Arthur Fading Wilson

Book:Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

“Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.”

Heart Seems Sides Hours Natural Sun Mankind Example Keys Stones Setting Settings Hills Clock Reasonable Twelve Centre Stopping Noon Dine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“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

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy except it's real.”

Kind Made Real Hard Seems Fantasy Special Mountain Unique Stones Fantastic Mystical Turkeys Like Something Special Places Erosion

Author:Violante Placido

“To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.”

Doe Soul Seems Science Order Animal Rocks Stones Accounts Plant Species Productions Seeds Senses Reproduction Geology Reproducing

Book:Book of Minerals

Source: Book of Minerals

“... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.”

People Love Self Done Seems Cold Capacity Stones Bones Dry Indifferent Numb Inhuman Self Absorbed

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.”

Should Long Seems Belief Views Accepting Stones Mere Versions Sufficient Reasonable Relevant Accurate Inquiry Stepping Stones

Author:Gail Fine

“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”

Ifs Philosophy Seems Spiritual Effects Stones Philosophical Physics Observers Observing

Book:An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

Source: An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

“Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.”

Heart Seems Purpose Trouble Summer Stones Winter Streams Enchanted Summer And Winter

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.”

Seems Quiet Stones Rose Fruit Woods Warmth Orange Here And There Occasional Gems Bittersweet Decoration Wild Roses

Author:Hal Borland

“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”

Writing Looks May Important Stories Seems Interest Imagination Broken Wall Fit Research Built Stones Predator Discarded Livestock Stone Walls

Author:Roland Smith

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

Seems Doors Stones Paint Now And Then Stepping Stones

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”

Ifs World Littles Reality Seems Would Be Form Shapes Stones Distance Endless Fascinating Concrete Shifting Relentless Fluid Hurrying Reinvention

Author:Mark Doty

“Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.”

Seems Answers Feet Tears Sorrow Stones Graves Tales Weed Rome Distress

Book:Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

Source: Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.”

People World Inspirational Matter Seems Kindness Stones No Matter What Better Place Stepping Stones Acts Of Kindness

Book:Change of Heart: A Novel

Source: Change of Heart: A Novel

“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.”

Humans Heart Seems White Cities Brain Alive Summer Stones Hot Smell Flesh Weather Extras Nerves Wire Skulls Sour Exposing Hot Weather

Author:Truman Capote

“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”

Men World Feels Seems Responsibility Building Pride Victory Stones Sight Responsible Shame Misery Setting Settings Be A Man Being Responsible Contributing Comrade

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".”

Thinking Mind Seems Speak Waiting Process Term Please Projects Stones Block Statues Knitting Yarn Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.”

Way Seems Faces Names Left Speak Ignorance Pure Stones Response Bones Call Me Warning Whips Snaps Slander Indignant

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Just to make your eyes sparkle, I'd do anything. I could give it all up to know you were my girl. Just being with you and listening to your laugh is what makes up my other half. I was lost and cold inside when your heart called out to mine. Now I know you're the only thing that keeps me hanging on, when the rest of the world seems to come crashing down." -Jax Stone”

Knows World Giving Heart Seems Eye Girl Lost Half Laughing Mines Listening Cold Stones Just Being Other Half Sparkle My Girl Hanging On Crashing Down

Book:Breathe

Source: Breathe

“Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.”

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