Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
Pain is the touchstone of all growth
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after. ' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced. . . Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist
People would say, "Oh, you say you just do jokes. " I don't just do jokes. I do jokes. Jokes are important. They saved my life when I was younger. Hopefully we're making things nicer at the end of the day for people. That's the entire goal, and that's the touchstone and the North Star for the tone.
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.
In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
