Best stones & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.”

Giving Speak Stones Praise Graves Recompense Tardiness

Author:Elizabeth Chase Allen

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

Ifs Humans Speak Human Beings Boys Violence Dog Politician Stones Cat Sells Add Charity Contempt Oppressed Organize Oppressors Good Politicians

Book:A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.”

Care Speak Stones Listeners Arrows Unwilling Lodges No One Cares Recoil

Author:St. Jerome

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.”

Has Beens Moving Speak Known Wonder Tree Stones

Author:William Shakespeare

“I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.”

Way Trying Choices Speak My Own Stones Sentences

Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

“Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.”

Hard Lying Speak Heaven Grief Cry Mines Stones Dear Grieving Spheres Darling

Author:Petrarch

“Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.”

Men Giving May Lasts Death Lying Speak Voice Cutting Stones Every Man Humankind Last Words Epitaph

Book:Queen Mary. A Drama

Source: Queen Mary. A Drama

“From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.”

Real Self Government Father Speak Given Voice Justice Views Stones Point Of View Halls Patriot Condemnation

Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“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.”

“I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.”

Knows Looks Children Long Eye Speak Term My Own Wonder Stones Financial Planning Long Term Compelling Rolling Rolling Stones Financial Planning

Author:Chris Matthews

“I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.”

People Thinking Knows Way Important Young Used Mother Speak Lucky Stones Opposites Starting Young Women Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“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

“John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.”

Way Trying Believe Character Shows Guy Speak Roles Stones Filmmaker Visuals

Author:George Hamilton

“It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

Trying May Together Speak Voice Pay Attention Silence Stones Blue Thanks Pay Attention Weed Contests Patches Doorways Few Words Vacant Irises

Author:Mary Oliver

“We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.”

Men Speak Quality Essentials Stones Cathedrals Aquariums

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.”

Knows Men Way Life Should May Sometimes Speak Stars Animal Sky Flower Terrible Stones Absurd Behave Beast Prey Embarrassment Stars In The Sky

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.”

Men Doe Said Book Lying Order Speak Tree Rocks Judging Fool Stones Bones Laughed Speculation Rags Chunks Reckoning Squatters

Book:Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.”

Ifs Thinking Way May Art Character Light Form Culture Speak Color Personality Speech Stones West Climate Western Minors Geography Pyramids Western Culture Light And Color

Book:The American West as Living Space

Source: The American West as Living Space

“Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.”

Ifs Knows Needs Looks Heart I Can Reason Remember Speak Memories Forget Written Stones Including Sparks Swear Trust Me Need You Gems I Need You Lingering

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Way Wanted Faces Speak Term Stones Absolutes Mask

Book:Love Story

Source: Love Story

“Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

Trying May Together Speak Voice Pay Attention Silence Praying Stones Blue Thanks Pay Attention Weed Contests Patches Doorways Few Words Vacant Irises

Book:Thirst: Poems

Source: Thirst: Poems

“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

“I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.”

People Thinking Wells Mean Two Home House Speak Building Stones Regard Woods Bricks Nests

Book:The Night of the Iguana

Source: The Night of the Iguana

“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

“She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky She will never close her eyes And she does not let me sleep And her dreams in the bright day Make the suns evaporate And me laugh cry and laugh Speak when I have nothing to say”

Doe Dream Body Hands Eye Speak Sleep Laughing Sun Sky Cry Hair Standing Stones Let Me Colour Shade Her Eyes Bright Days

Author:Paul Eluard

“Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.”

Ifs Trying Speak Goal Risk Stones Opposites Primaries Approved Speaks Out Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

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