Polished Stone Quotes

#1. No one really believes in the future, do they? It's like believing in your own death. You can't do it.

Ann Brashares

#2. Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity.

M.J. Rose

#5. Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

Douglas MacArthur

#6. What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

Molefi Kete Asante

#7. On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

Ben Kingsley

#9. She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Soldiers and women. That's how the world is. Any other role is temporary. Any other role is a gesture.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. This long lapse of time may be divided into four periods, called Ages: 1. The Rough Stone Age. 2. The Polished Stone Age. 3. The Bronze Age. 4. The Iron Age. The

Charles Seignobos

#12. Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the laying of it down

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. I am like a huge rough stone ... and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force ... thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#14. That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

Jayson Williams

#15. Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.

Debra Lawrance

#16. Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

#17. I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

Curt Schilling

#18. Apply just the right amount of force - never too much, never too little.

Kano Jigoro

#19. He had sleepless eyes, his mouth a little swollen, the deeply tanned skin somehow burnished. Kestrel thought that she, too, must look like this: polished by desire, the way a river stone holds a luster from having been made so smooth.

Marie Rutkoski

#20. Some things are more important than polished stone.

S.R. Ford

#21. What I don't have in theater is editing.

Julie Taymor

#22. The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Aliki

#23. As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.

Don DeLillo

#24. I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Ellen DeGeneres

#25. In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#26. We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

Sarah Steele

#27. When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.

Robin Hobb