A Quote by Plutarch

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Plutarch

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Constant Drop Falling Out Stone Strength

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

Ovid

...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

John Muir

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Anthony Trollope

Dripping water hollows out a stone

Ovid

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

Lucretius

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Ovid

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

Margaret Atwood

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.

Halldor Laxness

The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

Adam Ferrara

The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.

Maxine Waters

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Edward Fitzgerald

...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

Megan McCafferty

When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

Dwight L. Moody

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