A Quote by Jodi Picoult

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
American - Author
Born: May 19, 1966

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

Daniel Handler

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Haruki Murakami

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Leonardo da Vinci

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

Jeanne Phillips

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Saul Bellow

When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.

Travis Bradberry

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

Sebastian Koch

My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.

W. C. Fields

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

Cy Young

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

Arthur Golden

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

Tim Cook

Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.

Orson Bean

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

Sarah Dessen

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Philippa Gregory

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

Robertson Davies

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