Polished Stone Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

S.R. Ford

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

Aliki

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

Don DeLillo

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Jeffrey R. Holland

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

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Julie Taymor

#12. 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

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

Kano Jigoro

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

Curt Schilling

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

Jayson Williams

#17. 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.

#18. 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

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Ben Kingsley

#21. 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

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

Molefi Kete Asante

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

Douglas MacArthur

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Frederick Lenz

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

Ann Brashares