Thomas Stone Quotes

#1. Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Thomas Mann

#2. Gout produces calculus in the kidney ... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

Thomas Sydenham

#3. Men be so foolish as to have delight and pleasure in the doubtful glistering of a trifling little stone, which may behold any of the stars or else the sun itself.

Thomas More

#4. Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

Thomas S. Monson

#5. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.

Jesus Christ

#6. I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

Robert Stone

#7. Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Thomas Malory

#8. Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .

R.S. Thomas

#9. Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher's stone, how happy might they have been!

Thomas Brooks

#10. The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.

Thomas Aquinas

#11. Don't count calories, don't hate carbs, don't go to the Stone Age. Simply eat real food, healthy food, and find ways to love every bit of food and the health that results. It will become a lifelong habit and you can leave the yo-yoing behind.

Thomas M. Campbell II

#12. And as for my father? No, he wouldn't ever walk through those gates; I now knew that. Whatever Thomas Stone had, wherever he was at this moment, he had no idea what he'd given up in the exchange.

Abraham Verghese

#13. Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain.

Thomas Hardy

#15. The Utopians fail to understand why anyone should be so fascinated by the dull gleam of a tiny bit of stone, when he has all the stars in the sky to look at.

Thomas More

#16. Pneuma is the power - the vital breath - that animates animals and humans. It is, in Dylan Thomas's phrase, "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower," and is present even in lifeless materials like stone or metal as the energy that holds the object together - the

Marcus Aurelius

#17. Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.

Thomas Kinkade

#18. If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

Dean Koontz

#19. The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

Thomas Tusser

#20. The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

Thomas Jones

#21. And every stone and every star a tongue,
And every gale of wind a curious song.
The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke
Divinity: the Earth did undertake
The office of a priest; and I being dumb
(Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come
With voices and instructions ...

Thomas Traherne

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

Thomas Browne

#23. Retribution is really a stone age concept.

Thomas Metzinger

#24. England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...

Caitlin Thomas

#25. Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

Thomas Frank

#26. Why shouldst thou not take even as much pleasure in beholding a counterfeit stone, which thine eye cannot discern from a right stone?

Thomas More

#27. God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

Thomas Watson

#28. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

#29. The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

Thomas J. Stanley

#30. Five feet. Four feet. Three. Two. Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved. Forward. He squeezed past the connecting rods at the last second and stepped into the Maze. The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter.

James Dashner

#31. The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Thomas Campbell

#32. Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. Cole Thomas.'
The name, like an incantation, was on her lips.

Danika Stone

#34. By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.

Thomas Asbridge

#35. The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

Thomas Jefferson

#36. How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress' health, I'll pledge it. Stay, stay, there's a spider in the cup! No, 'tis but a grape-stone; swallow it, fear nothing, poet. So, so; lift higher.

Thomas Middleton