Whetting Stone Quotes

#1. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india's struggle for freedom

Bhagat Singh

#2. He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.

Gillian Flynn

#4. When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

#5. I miss you when you're not around,' he said. 'I can't sleep when you're not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you're up to.

Victoria Laurie

#6. As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.

Wendy Kopp

#7. I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.

Philip Kitcher

#8. I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.

Joel Silver

#9. One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.

Ramana Maharshi

#10. I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

Liz Greene

#11. I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.

Joan Rivers

#12. If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

Salma Hayek

#13. You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.

Rebecca Solnit