Top 1200 Rosetta Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

The body is the substance of the stone.

Roger Stone is one of my personal heroes.

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

You cannot flea a stone.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

Everything changes, even stone.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

I lift weights, but that's not my main focus. I'm a fighter now, and I want to evolve and make myself a well-rounded fighter, so obviously I'm not going to leave any stone unturned, when it comes to submissions, submission defense, striking, knees, leg kicks, and also learning to defend everything. It's not just an offensive sport because you're going to take some punches and you're going to give some punches. You've got to be able to handle both sides of the spectrum. I've brought in a number of highly trained trainers to help me evolve, and I believe we've left no stone unturned.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

I'm big into the Stone Roses.

My weight can swing by four stone.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Whatever is not stone is light

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Not a stone but has its history.

I don't like things set in stone.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

Leave no stone untamed.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

If only my heart were stone.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

I don't think anything has been set in stone yet.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise. I think that's what I would like most of all.

You can't get blood from a stone.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

Leave no stone unturned.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

It is freezing fit to split a stone.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

A stone is frozen music

It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.