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"When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so."
"You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others."
"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one."
"All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual."
"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet."
"To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]"
"What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?"
"A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand."
"Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!"
"Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime."
"Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will."
"Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time."
"In every failure is the seed of success... Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right."
"You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing."
"The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio."
"To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter."
"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!"
"The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head."
"Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh."
"You would rouse to anger a heart of stone."
