Stones Quotations | Page 7

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

The cut is the most important factor in the value of the diamond. You can have two diamonds of equal carat size, color and clarity ? one cut to ideal proportions and the other not and the value between the two may be as much as a 50 percent difference. That is why it is always important to look at the stones and compare them.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

The heaviest of stones has been lifted from atop the Iraqi people. An epic, murderous tyrant no longer threatens his own people, nor the world.

And it was around in the 1960s and 1970s as a recreational drug, too. The song 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Rolling Stones is about methamphetamine.

All the stones that were pushed over are upright and on their bases. We just have to glue them down, and that's going to take time to do.

The girls should decide now to call it a day, ... Consider: The Beatles are forever the superior of the Rolling Stones because they split.

The current generation of youth knows that Mandela was our president and that he was in jail, but that's it. They don't know their own history. We celebrated democracy and the miracle, but the building stones of a progressive and enlightened society needs work.

The first album's influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

Whatever is not stone is light

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, / As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

On fait la science avec des faits, comme on fait une maison avec des pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us...

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

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.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

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.

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.

I mean, I feel like you can kill the same bird with both stones.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

We want to evolve; like the Stones.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

A stone is frozen music

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.