Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis] Quote:This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. [William Shakespeare] Quote:In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. [Bette Davis] Quote:Under every stone lurks a politician. [Aristophanes] Quote:Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. [Henri Poincare] Quote:I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. [Albert Einstein] Definitions of: stoneDefinition: Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.Definition: A precious stone; a gem. Definition: Something made of stone. Specifically: - Definition: The glass of a mirror; a mirror. Definition: A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Definition: A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. Definition: One of the testes; a testicle. Definition: The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp. Definition: A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. Definition: Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. Definition: A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone. |
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