Quotes of: Stones Keyword

The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Tom Wolfe

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

Windston Churchill

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

William Makepeace Thackeray

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

William Arthur Ward

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

Bianca Jagger

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches...

How I Live Now

Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don't know if you'll admit a toad could have memories. But I don't know, either, if you'll admit there was once witchcraft in America. Witchcraft doesn't ...

Masters of Horror

The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciated her inability to understand something quite obvious – that Tolya was no longer among the living. Her love was so strong that T...

Life and Fate

The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched ...

The Stranger

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster i...

Wishful Drinking

Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental st...

Charlotte Bronte

Yet even so, Jon Snow was not sorry he had come. There were wonders here as well. He had seen sunlight flashing on icy thin waterfalls as they plunged over the lips of sheer stone cliffs, and a mountain meadow full of autumn wildflowers, blue coldsna...

George R.R. Martin

Jack Crabb: Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now? Old Lodge Skins: Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, ...

Little Big Man

[Avi, Tony, and Rosebud watch Boris on the video monitor] Bullet Tooth Tony: This guy's a handful. Rosebud: I hate Russians. I'll take care of him. Bullet Tooth Tony: He's all yours, Rosebud me old son. Rosebud: Not a problem. [Cut to a few minutes l...

Snatch.

Bithiah: Moses, do not enter! There is only sorrow here. Moses: Are you comforting it, my mother? I followed you here to find this woman Yochabe... [to Yochabel] Moses: You were the woman who was caught between the stones. Yochabel: Until you came. B...

The Ten Commandments

I was wrong, you were right. I'm dumb, you're smart. I'm ugly, and you're a stone-cold fox.

Coming Full Circle

even there a shining is flowing from all the stones though the eyes are not yet made that can see it

The Carrier of Ladders

that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind

Crow with No Mouth

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

The Collected Poems