Swallowing Stones Quotes

#1. Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

Ernest Borgnine

#2. You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

#4. Your father ... isn't good with emotions." "Yeah. Figured that out a while ago." Like, when I was four and cried because our family cat died and he offered to have it stuffed as a means to make me feel better. It didn't.

Lindy Zart

#5. How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn't occasionally say yes?

F.D. Lee

#6. As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Toyohiko Kagawa

#7. Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

Martin Luther

#9. Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#10. In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#11. It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

Jack Kornfield

#12. The basic principle is that there is a First Being who brought every existing thing into being, for if it be supposed that he did not exist, then nothing else could possibly exist.

Maimonides

#13. The moon is high up in the sky and it's spring.
I think of you and within myself I'm complete.
A light breeze comes to me from across the hazy fields.
I think of you and whisper your name. I'm not I: I'm happy.

Fernando Pessoa