Quotes About Throwing Stones

#1. We are all rocks fallen away from the same great mountain, sometimes finding our way back home by grace. There's no use in throwing stones because, no matter what shape they may take, even they are just another piece of us.

Cristen Rodgers

#2. Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

Amira Hass

#3. In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine.

Leonard Mlodinow

#4. At the end of the world, the war was going to come down to throwing stones.

Kameron Hurley

#5. No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

Ai Weiwei

#6. The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

James Fenton

#7. I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#8. This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

Lowkey

#9. throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They

J.K. Rowling

#10. I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Mary Wesley

#11. we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

Patrick Hennessey

#12. Shouldn't the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too - that moving on? Shouldn't there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who'd been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare

Laura Kasischke

#13. I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

Behdad Sami

#14. The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

Hassan Nasrallah

#15. Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Just a golden body throwing stones aimlessly into the sea.

John Fowles

#17. Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.

Leonard Mlodinow

#18. There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

Ai Weiwei

#19. I saw you there, I met you then, I liked you then but now I love you

Jordanblue1101

#20. Where did you go?" "Around." "The weather was good?" "Yeah." "It didn't rain?" "Nope." "That's good." "Yeah." Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation.

David Levithan

#21. A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Steve Albini

#22. Don't choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!

Steve Maraboli

#23. The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

John Perry Barlow

#24. Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#25. Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

#26. As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#27. Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.

Jeff Shaara

#28. We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

Alfred Kinsey

#29. Then there was someone else I met,
whose face and voice I can't forget,
and the memory of her
is like a jail I'm trapped inside,
or maybe she is something I just use
to hold my real life at a distance.

Tony Hoagland

#30. The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#31. Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#32. There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

Demetri Martin

#33. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

Kate Atkinson

#34. So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell.

Henry David Thoreau

#35. The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

Warren Farrell