Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects."
Pebbles quotes
Pebbles
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble."
Natalie
Musician
"Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing."
Mark Oliver
Author
"Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay."
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"Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it."
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"I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me."
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"I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?"
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"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."
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"A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble."
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"There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave."
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"The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life."
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"God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship."
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"You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else."
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"You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm."
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"You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple."
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"Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms."
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"It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man."
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"Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it."
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"I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion."
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"Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere."
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