It is better to be a stepping stone than a stumbling block

Looking at the fire on the stone.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to...

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Oliver Stone’s strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

She wept a river of tears holy water, sent to soften the sharp edges of sorrow a gentle hollowing out, carving new chambers in her hearta hallowed vessel for holding sacred, the tears of others…

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

They fought because they loved the dance, and the weight of a sword in their hands. The clash and spark of metal and hiss of flame was like music written just for them. They fought...

Statues look like people, but people shouldn’t act like statues—you know, be set in their ways like stone. I make love like a sculptor paints, minus the wine, plus the grape juice. Suck me like...

STONELet my heartturn tostone.Maybe thenI can sleepwithoutnightmares.May be thenI can eatwithouta stomachache.Maybe thenI can readwithout fearof an unhappy ending.Take the knifeout of my heartand,please,let itturn to stone.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing...

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human...

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Oh, these people’s minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they’re not like you and me,” said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

When I was a rolling stone my tears roll down on my cheeks when I became rigid my tears do the same.

In the heated idleness of youth we were all rather inclined to quarrel with the implication of that proverb which says that a rolling stone gathers no moss. We were inclined to ask, “Who wants...

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Swish and flick.

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as...

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of...

You have been insulted, and you have been beaten…and yet you have refused to let any of it hurt you where it really mattered: on the inside. You are indeed a stone. You withstand the...

I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone.

Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l’océan de larmes, – Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)

…your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I’m always turning over…

Leave no stone unturned. Leave no bone unbroken. Drive your life with care and don’t dose off while you do so. If you don’t wake up, you are likely miss you way!

There are very few things that live in both this world and the world of dreams. Most are gods, angels and demons. The Stone you hold was made by Vlad Valkire the son of an...

If you really truly want to know, I’ve thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I’ve held my tears so long that I can’t cry anymore, that I’m a dry stone and...

A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre – Est une sculpture ?)

…I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone – perhaps I’m a Troll…

When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!

I don’t like things set in stone.

Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle’s to be. Northmen’s thing made southfolk’s place but howmulty plurators made eachone in per-son? Latin me that, my trinity scholard, out of eure sanscreed intooure eryan! Hircus Civis Eblanensis! He...

No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone

Her mouth set. “I’ve already lost one man I loved tonight. I will not lose the other.” She glared at him. “And curse you, you stone head, for making me say it first.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

Lark: “You shouldn’t yell at her.” Frostpine: “Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a stone.” — Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter...

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. – La dernière est derrière nous.)(The Bird and its Sun / L’Oiseau et son Soleil)

He pulled his hand back, aware now that sweat beaded on his forehead and that Rale watched him, his eyes dark, intense. Errol licked his lips. Did he want a drink? He hadn’t gone more...

Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

Do you belong to the religion that whip, stone and murder people; because they wanted to enjoy their life.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.