Top 1200 Stone Cold Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

"America's Cold War veterans deserve every honor we can bestow upon them for their hard work and dedication to keeping our nation safe,". "The Cold War Service Medal would allow military service members, veterans, and their families to receive the recognition and honor they rightfully deserve. I will continue to work with my colleagues to ensure our veterans receive the support and care they and their families need. It's the least we can do as a grateful nation."

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not letting myself get too hungry, not letting myself get too cold (I'm a person who is always cold), made a big difference. Partly because I felt happier, partly because feeling physically comfortable makes it easier to keep other difficult happiness-boosting resolutions like biting my tongue.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

I think a football career should be used as a stepping stone to something better - not as an end in Itself.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

There is something liberating and defiant about going on stage and saying you are 36 and 13 stone.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.