Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that's taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can't handle that one tiny thing.
I only properly played golf when I was 15 or 16. The best course I've done? Pebble Beach in California.
Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
But when I reached the depths,
I became very still.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.
A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.
I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.
I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.
At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
Be a rock, not a pebble.
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.
I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.
I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.
Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.
The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
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