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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."
"What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave."
"The Stone the Builders Rejected."
"I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to."
"Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt."
"The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up."
"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."
"Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone"
"It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him."
"A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth."
"Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely."
"You cannot flea a stone."
"Who remove stones, bruise their fingers."
"Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread"."
"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."
"Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it."
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity."
"You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy."
"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."
"If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours."
