With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
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.
Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.
If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That changed Canadian politics forever. If they stay motivated, and believe me, they are, no party can ever get a majority mandate again without winning at least 60 per cent of those voters. There hasn't been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasn't thrown stones at.
She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.
Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.