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:Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.[Britney Spears] 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:One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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: toneDefinition: Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.Definition: Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. Definition: A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone. Definition: A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones. Definition: The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone. Definition: The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone. Definition: A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones. Definition: That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. Definition: Tonicity; as, arterial tone. Definition: State of mind; temper; mood. Definition: Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory. Definition: General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners. Definition: The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone. Definition: Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone. Definition: Color quality proper; -- called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade. Definition: The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture. |
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