TERMS STARTING WITH
stonesmickle ::: n. --> The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
TERMS ANYWHERE
abreuvoir ::: n. --> The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
Acervus argument: A Sophistical argument to the effect that, given any number of stones which are not sufficient to constitute a heap, one does not obtain a heap by adding one more -- yet eventually, if this process is repeated, one has a heap. -- C.A.B.
acinaceous ::: a. --> Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
Amulet ::: (processor) An implementation or the Advanced RISC Machine microprocessor architecture using the micropipeline design style. In April 1994 the Amulet circuit and the world's first implementation of a commercial microprocessor architecture (ARM) in asynchronous logic.Work was begun at the end of 1990 and the design despatched for fabrication in February 1993. The primary intent was to demonstrate that an asynchronous microprocessor can consume less power than a synchronous design.The design incorporates a number of concurrent units which cooperate to give instruction level compatibility with the existing synchronous part. These control path which performs instruction decode. These units only synchronise to exchange data.The design demonstrates that all the usual problems of processor design can be solved in this asynchronous framework: backward instruction set compatibility, code sequences is continuous rather than discrete, and the nondeterminism in external behaviour must also be taken into account.The chip was designed using a mixture of custom datapath and compiled control logic elements, as was the synchronous ARM. The fabrication technology is the same as that used for one version of the synchronous part, reducing the number of variables when comparing the two parts.Two silicon implementations have been received and preliminary measurements have been taken from these. The first is a 0.7um process and has achieved about 28 AMULET1 it is likely that this speed is limited by the memory system cycle time (just over 50ns) rather than the processor chip itself.A fair comparison of devices at the same geometries gives the AMULET1 performance as about 70% of that of an ARM6 running at 20MHz. Its power several design iterations. AMULET2 (currently under development) is expected to be three times faster than AMULET1 - 120 kdhrystones - and use less power.The macrocell size (without pad ring) is 5.5 mm by 4.5 mm on a 1 micron CMOS process, which is about twice the area of the synchronous part. Some of the to the asynchronous control logic, this is estimated to be closer to 20% than to the 100% suggested by the direct comparison.AMULET1 is code compatible with ARM6 and is so is capable of running existing binaries without modification. The implementation also includes features such as interrupts and memory aborts.The work was part of a broad ESPRIT funded investigation into low-power technologies within the European Open Microprocessor systems Initiative (OMI) role asynchronous logic might play has now demonstrated that asynchronous techniques can be applied to problems of the scale of a complete microprocessor. . (1994-12-08)
Amulet "processor" An implementation or the {Advanced RISC Machine} {microprocessor} architecture using the {micropipeline} design style. In April 1994 the Amulet group in the Computer Science department of {Manchester University} took delivery of the AMULET1 {microprocessor}. This was their first large scale asynchronous circuit and the world's first implementation of a commercial microprocessor architecture (ARM) in {asynchronous logic}. Work was begun at the end of 1990 and the design despatched for fabrication in February 1993. The primary intent was to demonstrate that an asynchronous microprocessor can consume less power than a synchronous design. The design incorporates a number of concurrent units which cooperate to give instruction level compatibility with the existing synchronous part. These include an Address unit, which autonomously generates instruction fetch requests and interleaves ({nondeterministic}ally) data requests from the Execution unit; a {Register} file which supplies operands, queues write destinations and handles data dependencies; an Execution unit which includes a multiplier, a shifter and an {ALU} with data-dependent delay; a Data interface which performs byte extraction and alignment and includes an {instruction prefetch} buffer, and a control path which performs {instruction decode}. These units only synchronise to exchange data. The design demonstrates that all the usual problems of processor design can be solved in this asynchronous framework: backward {instruction set} compatibility, {interrupts} and exact {exceptions} for {memory faults} are all covered. It also demonstrates some unusual behaviour, for instance {nondeterministic} prefetch depth beyond a branch instruction (though the instructions which actually get executed are, of course, deterministic). There are some unusual problems for {compiler} {optimisation}, as the metric which must be used to compare alternative code sequences is continuous rather than discrete, and the {nondeterminism} in external behaviour must also be taken into account. The chip was designed using a mixture of custom {datapath} and compiled control logic elements, as was the synchronous ARM. The fabrication technology is the same as that used for one version of the synchronous part, reducing the number of variables when comparing the two parts. Two silicon implementations have been received and preliminary measurements have been taken from these. The first is a 0.7um process and has achieved about 28 kDhrystones running the standard {benchmark} program. The other is a 1 um implementation and achieves about 20 kDhrystones. For the faster of the parts this is equivalent to a synchronous {ARM6} clocked at around 20MHz; in the case of AMULET1 it is likely that this speed is limited by the memory system cycle time (just over 50ns) rather than the processor chip itself. A fair comparison of devices at the same geometries gives the AMULET1 performance as about 70% of that of an {ARM6} running at 20MHz. Its power consumption is very similar to that of the ARM6; the AMULET1 therefore delivers about 80 MIPS/W (compared with around 120 from a 20MHz ARM6). Multiplication is several times faster on the AMULET1 owing to the inclusion of a specialised asynchronous multiplier. This performance is reasonable considering that the AMULET1 is a first generation part, whereas the synchronous ARM has undergone several design iterations. AMULET2 (under development in 1994) was expected to be three times faster than AMULET1 and use less power. The {macrocell} size (without {pad ring}) is 5.5 mm by 4.5 mm on a 1 micron {CMOS} process, which is about twice the area of the synchronous part. Some of the increase can be attributed to the more sophisticated organisation of the new part: it has a deeper {pipeline} than the clocked version and it supports multiple outstanding memory requests; there is also specialised circuitry to increase the multiplication speed. Although there is undoubtedly some overhead attributable to the asynchronous control logic, this is estimated to be closer to 20% than to the 100% suggested by the direct comparison. AMULET1 is code compatible with {ARM6} and is so is capable of running existing {binaries} without modification. The implementation also includes features such as interrupts and memory aborts. The work was part of a broad {ESPRIT} funded investigation into low-power technologies within the European {Open Microprocessor systems Initiative} (OMI) programme, where there is interest in low-power techniques both for portable equipment and (in the longer term) to alleviate the problems of the increasingly high dissipation of high-performance chips. This initial investigation into the role {asynchronous logic} might play has now demonstrated that asynchronous techniques can be applied to problems of the scale of a complete {microprocessor}. {(http://cs.man.ac.uk/amulet)}. (1994-12-08)
angels who began hurling [at the pursuing or retreating Egyptians] arrows, great hailstones, fire,
arch ::: 1. An upwardly curved construction, for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening, either capable of bearing weight or merely ornamental; 2. Something bowed or curved; any bowlike part: the arch of the foot. 3. An arched roof, door; gateway; vault; fig. the heavens. arches.
arch ::: n. --> Any part of a curved line.
Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
ARM800 ::: (processor) A microprocessor based on the ARM8 processor core designed by Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Planned features include a 60-100Mhz clock rate; 0.35-0.4 micron silicon fabrication; an improvement on the ARM7's 1.4 cycle/instruction; a 16 Kbyte cache.Some estimates were 100 MIPS and 120 Kdhrystones at 70Mhz (twice the ARM700). Samples of the ARM800 are expected to be available in late 1995.It may run on a voltage below 3.3V.Digital Semiconductor's Hudson fab is 0.35 micron and they have announced a licensing deal for the ARM architecture (see StrongARM). (1995-02-07)
ARM800 "processor" A {microprocessor} based on the {ARM8} processor core designed by {Advanced RISC Machines} Ltd. Planned features include a 60-100Mhz {clock rate}; 0.35-0.4 micron silicon fabrication; an improvement on the {ARM7}'s 1.4 cycle/instruction; a 16 Kbyte {cache}. Some estimates were 100 MIPS and 120 Kdhrystones at 70Mhz (twice the {ARM700}). Samples of the ARM800 are expected to be available in late 1995. It may run on a voltage below 3.3V. {Digital Semiconductor}'s Hudson fab is 0.35 micron and they have announced a licensing deal for the ARM architecture (see {StrongARM}). (1995-02-07)
As Plato puts it in the Timaeus, the universe was constructed by divinity in accordance with geometrical laws, the first cosmogonic basis of which was the dodecahedron — outside of the ever-productive and cosmically fecund One. Philo Judaeus likewise regarded twelve as a sacred number, writing that the sun visits serially the signs of the zodiac monthly, during the twelve months of the year, “and it is to honour that sign that Moses divided his nation into twelve tribes, established the twelve cakes (Levit. xxiv, 5) of the shewbread, and placed twelve precious stones around the ephod of the pontiffs (See De Profugis)” (SD 1:649).
A stone is an organism enshrining a divine spark or monad. The difference between the stone and the man consists largely in the fact that what is expressed in man is latent in the stone. Why then should not the hierophants of genuine magic or occult science have been able to evoke from the stone its latent potencies? Why should not particular stones, like particular plants, animals, or men, possess particular virtues?
atrypa ::: n. --> A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.
Avebury An English village in Wiltshire about 20 miles north of Stonehenge, where one of the most remarkable stone circles in England, and the largest in Europe, is located. Unfortunately many of the stones have been removed or buried, so that the monument at present is not as impressive as Stonehenge. Originally 300 stones are believed to have been in the three circles, the largest circle measuring on the average 1260 feet in diameter and 4442 feet in circumference.
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babble ::: v. i. --> To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
ballistic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.
barney ::: In Commonwealth hackish, barney is to fred as bar is to foo. That is, people who commonly use fred as their first metasyntactic variable will often use barney second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons.[Jargon File] (1994-11-28)
barney In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to {fred} as {bar} is to {foo}. That is, people who commonly use "fred" as their first {metasyntactic variable} will often use "barney" second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-28)
barrow ::: n. --> A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
Betylos, Baetylus (Latin) [from Greek baitylos meteoric stone] Also betylus, baetyl, betyles. In Classical antiquity a stone, either natural or artificially shaped, venerated as of divine origin, or as a symbol of divinity. There were a number of these sacred stones in Greece, the most famous being the one on the omphalos at Delphi. Likewise there were the so-called animated or oracular stones. “Strabo, Pliny, Helancius [Hellanicus] — all speak of the electrical, or electro-magnetic power of the betyli. They were worshipped in the remotest antiquity in Egypt and Samothrace, as magnetic stones, ‘containing souls which had fallen from heaven’; and the priests of Cybele wore a small betylos on their bodies” (IU 1:332). In Persia they were called oitzoe; but their origin was of far greater antiquity, for “Lemuria, Atlantis and her giants, and the earliest races of the Fifth Root-Race had all a hand in these betyles, lithoi, and ‘magic’ stones in general” (SD 2:346n). See also OPHITES
Bhaisajyagurusutra. [alt. BhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabhArAjasutra] (T. Sman gyi bla bai durya'i 'od kyi rgyal po'i sngon gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa'i mdo; C. Yaoshi benyuan jing; J. Yakushi hongangyo; K. Yaksa ponwon kyong 藥師本願經). An eponymous MAHAYANA SuTRA that recounts the qualities, vows, and PURE LAND (BUDDHAKsETRA) of the buddha BHAIsAJYAGURU-the Master of Healing, also known as the Medicine Buddha, or the TathAgata of Lapis-Lazuli Light. The scripture was most likely written in northern India during the early centuries of the Common Era. In this sutra, at the request of MANJUsRĪ-kumAra, sAKYAMUNI describes this buddha and his pure land. Bhaisajyaguru's pure land lies in the east, separated from our world system by innumerable buddhaksetras. Like other pure lands, Bhaisajyaguru's realm is free from the miseries that invariably plague existence and is ideal for the acquisition of the dharma as taught by Bhaisajyaguru himself and his retinue of BODHISATTVAs. The ground in this realm is made of lapis lazuli. Its roads, also made of precious stones, are marked with ropes of gold. Its houses are made of jewels. sAkyamuni also describes the bodhisattva vows taken by Bhaisajyaguru in his quest for awakening. Bhaisajyaguru vowed that his name, if merely uttered, would cure diseases, free prisoners, secure food and clothing for the impoverished, and produce other similar benefits. He also vowed that his body would be as resplendent as lapis lazuli itself so that it might illuminate the world. This sutra describes methods by which one may gain Bhaisajyaguru's favor; these methods include making an image of Bhaisajyaguru, reciting the text of the Bhaisajyagurusutra, or merely thinking of his name. Chinese translations of this sutra were made by Dharmagupta in 616 and by XUANZANG in 650 at DACI'ENSI in the Tang capital of Chang'an.
bicker ::: n. --> A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
A skirmish; an encounter.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention. ::: v. i. --> To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
bilifuscin ::: n. --> A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.
biliprasin ::: n. --> A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.
BodhicaryAvatAra. (T. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa; C. Putixing jing; J. Bodaigyokyo; K. Porihaeng kyong 菩提行經). In Sanskrit, lit. "Introduction to the Practice of Enlightenment," a.k.a. BodhisattvacaryAvatAra, "Introduction to the Bodhisattva Practice"; a poem about the BODHISATTVA path, in ten chapters, written by the Indian poet sANTIDEVA (fl. c. 685-763). The verse is regarded as one of the masterpieces of late Indian MAHAYANA Buddhism, eliciting substantial commentary in both India and Tibet. The most influential of the Indian commentaries is the BodhicaryAvatArapaNjikA by PRAJNAKARAMATI. The text is especially important in Tibetan Buddhism, where it has long been memorized by monks and where stanzas from the text are often cited in both written and oral religious discourse. The poem is an extended reverie on the implications of the "aspiration for enlightenment" (BODHICITTA) that renders a person a bodhisattva, and on the deeds of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (PARAMITA). In the first chapter, sAntideva distinguishes between two forms of bodhicitta, the intentional (PRAnIDHICITTOTPADA) and the practical (PRASTHANACITTOTPADA), comparing them to the decision to undertake a journey and then actually setting out on that journey. In the fifth chapter he provides a famous argument for patience (KsANTI), stating that in order to walk uninjured across a surface of sharp stones, one can either cover the entire world with leather or one can cover the sole of one's foot with leather; in the same way, in order to survive the anger of enemies, one can either kill them all or practice patience. In the eighth chapter, he sets forth the technique for the equalizing and exhange of self and other, regarded in Tibet as one of the two chief means of cultivating bodhicitta. The lengthiest chapter is the ninth, devoted to wisdom (PRAJNA). Here sAntideva refutes a range of both non-Buddhist and Buddhist positions. On the basis of this chapter, sAntideva is counted as a PRASAnGIKA in the Tibetan doxographical system. According to legend, when sAntideva recited this chapter to the monks of NALANDA monastery, he began to rise into the air, leaving some questions as to precisely how the chapter ends. The final chapter is a prayer, often recited independently.
bombard ::: n. --> A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
A bombardment.
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
Padded breeches.
See Bombardo.
bossage ::: n. --> A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.
Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.
Both-al (Irish) The oracular or magical stones of ancient Ireland; equivalent to the Greek betylos.
brawl ::: v. i. --> To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
To complain loudly; to scold.
To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. ::: n. --> A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a
breastplate ::: n. --> A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
A strap that runs across a horse&
stonesmickle ::: n. --> The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
buhrstone ::: n. --> A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.
burrel shot ::: --> A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.
cairn ::: n. --> A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
calcedon ::: n. --> A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.
carat ::: n. --> The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
caster ::: n. --> One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.
A stand to hold a set of cruets.
A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.
catapult ::: n. --> An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.
chaetetes ::: n. --> A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.
changed into precious stones. In Longfellow’s The
cholesterin ::: n. --> A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.
chondrule ::: n. --> A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
chromolithograph ::: n. --> A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
chrysolites ::: brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as gemstones such as topaz, etc.
clambake ::: n. --> The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
cobwork ::: a. --> Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.
cockshy ::: n. --> A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
An object at which stones are flung.
conglomerate ::: a. --> Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together. ::: n.
coticular ::: a. --> Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
crampoons ::: n. --> A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.
cromlech ::: n. --> A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.
cubile ::: n. --> The lowest course of stones in a building.
cuddy ::: n. --> An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
A blockhead; a lout.
A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).
Cyclopean Structures Applied by the Greeks to certain architecture of huge stones without mortar, such as found in Tiryns and Mycenae, and attributed to the cyclopes. Cyclopean masonry is found in the platforms of the Easter Island statues, of Lemurian origin; in the vast walls of Tiahuanaco, Peru; in the colossal statues of Bamian, Asia, and many other places.
derrick ::: n. --> A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.
designs or pictures transferred from engraved plates, wood blocks, lithographic stones or other media. flower-prints.
Deucalion, Deukalion (Greek) A son of Prometheus and Clymene, and king of Phthia in Thessaly. When Zeus resolved to destroy the degenerate human race, the only two left alive were Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha, on account of their piety. On his father’s advice, Deucalion built a ship, in which he and Pyrrha floated during the nine-days flood, until the ship finally rested on Mount Parnassus. On the advice of an oracle, they repeopled the earth by throwing stones behind them, which became human beings. See also ARK
dibstone ::: n. --> A pebble used in a child&
diluvium ::: n. --> A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.
dinosauria ::: n. pl. --> An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
dipyrenous ::: a. --> Containing two stones or nutlets.
drakestone ::: n. --> A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.
Dyfed (Welsh) Modern Pembrokeshire, called Gwlad Hud a Lledrith (Land of Illusion and Phantasy). Closely associated with the family of gods, Pwyll, Rhianon, Pryderi — gods of the underworld or Otherworld — and in some way regarded as being close to the Otherworld. The builders of Stonehenge brought one of their circles of stones from the Preselen Mountains in Dyfed; one suspects their motive to have been to give a certain consecration to the place with stones from the Land of the Gods of the Otherworld.
eaglestone ::: n. --> A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites.
Easter Island A volcanic island in the South Pacific about 2000 miles west of Chile, celebrated for its mysterious megalithic monuments including many huge platforms (ahus) built of large blocks of basalt so hard that it can scarcely be worked with steel tools. Some of the platforms are made of carefully hewn stones, ten feet long and fitted together with almost invisible joints. Some are drilled with curious round holes. Easter Island is best known for about 550 statues of great but varying size found in different places, mostly facing the ocean, some of which formerly stood on the platforms. Most vary in height from 4 to 32 feet, but the largest one, which still remains unfinished in the quarry measures about 70 feet. They are composed of a friable rock much softer than the platforms, which may well be far older. Their significance and origin are unknown, but they bear the distinct imprint of the Lemuro-Atlantean tradition. Easter Island as land is said to belong to the earliest civilizations of the third root-race, but the island, submerged towards the end of the third root-race, reappeared due to a sudden uplifting of that part of the ocean floor during the Champlain epoch of northern polar submersion (SD 2:327).
eburin ::: n. --> A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
elapidation ::: n. --> A clearing away of stones.
el dorado ::: --> A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
enrockment ::: n. --> A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.
eozoon ::: n. --> A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.
ephod ::: n. --> A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.
espringal ::: n. --> An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.
“Every Cosmogony began with a circle, a point, a triangle, and a cube, up to number 9, when it was synthesized by the first line and a circle — the Pythagorean mystic Decade, the sum of all, involving and expressing the mysteries of the entire Kosmos; recorded a hundred times more fully in the Hindu system, for him who can understand its mystic language. The numbers 3 and 4, in their blending of 7, as those of 5, 6, 9, and 10, are the very corner-stones of Occult Cosmogonies. This decade and its thousand combinations are found in every portion of the globe” (SD 1:321).
exossation ::: n. --> A depriving of bone or of fruit stones.
flagging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Flag ::: n. --> A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively. ::: a.
flagstone ::: n. --> A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
flysch ::: n. --> A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
fret ::: n. --> See 1st Frith.
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
Herpes; tetter.
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones
gabion ::: n. --> A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy&
garland ::: n. --> The crown of a king.
A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
The top; the thing most prized.
A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience
Gesia Cemetery ::: The largest Jewish cemetery in Warsaw just outside the location of the old Warsaw Ghetto. Of the approximately 300,000 tombstones contained in the cemetery, more than 100,000 are in various states of disrepair.
ginging ::: n. --> The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.
glyptics ::: n. --> The art of engraving on precious stones.
glyptographic ::: a. --> Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones.
glyptography ::: n. --> The art or process of engraving on precious stones.
gravel ::: n. --> Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. ::: v. t.
grind ::: v. t. --> To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
To study hard for examination.
grizzly ::: a. --> Somewhat gray; grizzled.
In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. ::: n. --> A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.
gurgle ::: v. i. --> To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. ::: n. --> The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."
hail ::: n. --> Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. ::: v. i. --> To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
hailshot ::: n. pl. --> Small shot which scatter like hailstones.
heap ::: n. --> A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. ::: v. t.
helminthite ::: n. --> One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.
husk ::: n. --> The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
The supporting frame of a run of millstones. ::: v. t. --> To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to
Huwasi: The Hittite name of upright stones representing gods or consecrated to gods.
Hwangnyongsa. (皇/龍寺). In Korean, "royal," or "Yellow Dragon Monastery" ("royal" and "yellow" are homophonous in Korean); an important Korean monastery located in the Silla-dynasty capital of Kyongju. The monastery was constructed between 553 and 569, during the reign of the Silla king Chinhŭng (r. 540-576) and was especially renowned for its sixteen-foot high image of sĀKYAMUNI Buddha (completed in 574) and its massive, nine-story pagoda (STuPA), which was built in 645 during the reign of Queen Sondok (r. 632-647). In the winter of 1238, during the succeeding Koryo dynasty (918-1392), the entire monastery, including the buddha image and the pagoda, was totally destroyed by invading Mongol troops, and only the foundation stones currently remain. The site of the monastery was excavated by the Kyongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage between 1976 and 1983. Royal Dragon monastery flourished due to the support of the Silla royal family, which sought to use Buddhism as an unifying political ideology; The stories told concerning the foundation of the monastery, the image, and the pagoda all reflect this fact. The construction of the monastery is thus often cited as an example of "state-protection Buddhism" hoguk Pulgyo; C. HUGUO FOJIAO) in Korea. According to the SAMGUK YUSA ("Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms"), in the second month of 553, King Chinhŭng was building a new palace to the south of his Dragon Palace and east of Wolsong palace, when a yellow dragon (hwangnyong) appeared at the site. Yellow dragons were popular autochthonous deities in Silla; hence, given the auspicious nature of this apparition, the king changed plans and instead built a Buddhist monastery on the site, which is called both Yellow Dragon and Royal Dragon monastery in the literature. When the Silla monk CHAJANG (d.u.; fl. c. 590-658) was training at WUTAISHAN in China, an emanation of the bodhisattva MANJUsRĪ told him that Hwangnyongsa was constructed on the site of the dispensation of the previous buddha KĀsYAPA. Not long after the monastery's completion, a ship with 57,000 pounds of iron and 30,000 ounces of gold aboard appeared at Sap'o Harbor in Hagok County (currently Kokp'o near Ulsan, on the southeast coast of the peninsula). The ship also carried an inscription, which said that the Indian king AsOKA, having tried and failed three times to forge a sākyamuni triad from these metals, had finally decided to load the materials aboard ship, along with models of the images, and send them off in search of a land with the requisite metallurgical skill to craft such a statue. King Chinŭng ordered his metallurgists to forge this sixteen-foot statue of the Buddha, and they succeeded on the first attempt in the third month of 574. Chajang also was told by MANJUSRĪ that the queen belonged to the Indian KsATRIYA caste. He was later told by a divine being that if a nine-story pagoda were constructed within the precincts of Royal Dragon monastery, the kingdoms bordering Silla would surrender and submit to Silla hegemony. Hearing Chajang's prediction, in 645, the queen built the pagoda, which was 224 feet tall and made entirely of wood. Chajang placed within its columns some of the relics (sARĪRA) of the Buddha that he had received at Wutaishan. (Another portion was enshrined at T'ONGDOSA, where they remain still today.) It was said that the nine stories of the pagoda symbolized the nine kingdoms and tribal leagues surrounding Silla. During the time when Hwangnyongsa was constructed, the unification wars between the three Korean kingdoms of Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche were raging. The Silla monarchs at this time tried to justify their royal authority by relying on Buddhism, particularly by comparing the Silla rulers to the imported Buddhist notion of the ideal Buddhist ruler, or CAKRAVARTIN (wheel-turning emperor) and by positing that the royal family was genealogically related to the ksatriya clan of the Buddha. These associations are also obvious in the personal names of Silla kings, queens, and other royal family members. For example, the names of the King Chinhŭng's two princes were Tongnyun (Copper Wheel) and Kŭmnyun (Gold Wheel), both specific types of cakravartins; additionally, King Chinp'yong's personal name was Paekchong and his queen's was Maya, the Sino-Korean translation and transcription, respectively, of the names of sākyamuni Buddha's father and mother, sUDDHODANA and MĀYĀ. The foundation of Hwangnyongsa was intimately associated with these attempts by the royal family to employ Buddhism as a tool for justifying and reinforcing its authority. The monastery sponsored the Inwang Paekkojwa hoe (Humane Kings Assembly of One-Hundred Seats), a state-protection (hoguk) rite based on the RENWANGJING ("Scripture for Humane Kings"), in the hopes that the power of the buddhadharma would protect and promote the royal family and the kingdom. According to both the Samguk yusa and the Samguk Sagi ("Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms"), such a ceremony was held at Hwangnyongsa in 613 and 636, before the unification of the three kingdoms, as well as several times subsequently. Monks who resided at Hwangnyongsa also played important roles in Silla politics and religion. WoN'GWANG (532-630), who composed the five codes of conduct for the "flower boys" (hwarang), an elite group of male aristocratic youths, may have written there a letter to ask Emperor Yangdi (r. 604-618) of the Sui dynasty to attack Koguryo on Silla's behalf. Another resident, Chajang, encouraged the royal family to adopt Chinese official attire and the Chinese chronological era at the Silla court and was appointed kukt'ong (state superintendent), to supervise the entire Silla Buddhist ecclesia. Several other Hwangnyongsa monks, including Hyehun (fl. c. 640), Kangmyong (fl. 655), and Hunp'il (fl. 879), were appointed to kukt'ong and other important Silla ecclesiastical positions. Finally, several important Silla scholar-monks resided at Hwangnyongsa, including WoNHYO (617-686), who delivered his first public teaching of the KŬMGANG SAMMAEGYoNG NON ("Exposition of the Vajrasamādhisutra") at the monastery.
hydractinian ::: n. --> Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.
hydra ::: n. --> A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
ignescent ::: a. --> Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.
inanimate ::: v. t. --> To animate. ::: a. --> Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.
"Indian devotion has especially seized upon the most intimate human relations and made them stepping-stones to the supra-human. God the Guru, God the Master, God the Friend, God the Mother, God the Child, God the Self, each of these experiences — for to us they are more than merely ideas, — it has carried to its extreme possibilities.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Indian devotion has especially seized upon the most intimate human relations and made them stepping-stones to the supra-human. God the Guru, God the Master, God the Friend, God the Mother, God the Child, God the Self, each of these experiences—for to us they are more than merely ideas,—it has carried to its extreme possibilities.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
In regard to the remarkable achievements that the Atlanteans made in all the arts and sciences, we read that the early fifth root-race received their knowledge from the fourth root-race. “It is from them that they learnt aeronautics, Viwan Vidya [vimana-vidya] (the ‘knowledge of flying in air-vehicles’), and, therefore, their great arts of meteorography and meteorology. It is from them, again, that the Aryans inherited their most valuable science of the hidden virtues of precious and other stones, of chemistry, or rather alchemy, of mineralogy, geology, physics and astronomy” (SD 2:426).
Internet Monthly Report (IMR) Publication designed to communicate to the {Internet Research Group} the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organisations. (1994-12-08)
Internet Monthly Report ::: (IMR) Publication designed to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organisations. (1994-12-08)
jackstone ::: n. --> One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
Jasher, Book of; Sepher Hay-Yashar (Hebrew) Sēfer hay-Yāshār Book of the upright or honorable ones; a poetic collection of Hebrew stories and allegories portraying the religious beliefs of the people of the time of its compilation. Regarded by some scholars as a 12th century composition in Spain, others hold it is not earlier than the time of Solomon. At all events, the Book of Jasher is older than the Mosaic Pentatuech, because references to it are found in Joshua 10:13, 2 Samuel, and Isaiah. “Although rejected by the orthodox Rabbis, we cannot help thinking that, as in the case of the apocryphal Gospels, . . . the Book of Jasher is the true original from which the subsequent Bible was in part composed. . . . both are corner-stones of the Mosaic and Christian religions” (IU 2:399).
jeweler ::: n. --> One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments.
jewel ::: n. --> An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.
A precious stone; a gem.
An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing.
A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby. ::: v. t.
Khri srong lde btsan. (Trisong Detsen) (r. 754-799). A Tibetan ruler considered the second of three great religious kings (chos rgyal) during the Imperial Period, the other two being SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO and RAL PA CAN, and as a human incarnation of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITEsVARA. Inheriting the throne in 754 as the thirty-eighth monarch of the Yar klungs dynasty, Khri srong lde btsan directed several events that are considered milestones in Tibetan history. During the early years of his reign, he extended the boundaries of the Tibetan empire forged under his predecessors. In 763, the king's army occupied the imperial capital of Tang China at Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), an action commemorated on a stele that was erected in front of the PO TA LA Palace. However, Khri srong lde btsan is best remembered for his patronage of Buddhism and support in founding Tibet's first Buddhist monastery of BSAM YAS. Later chronicles record that he actively suppressed the native BON religion, as well as the aristocratic clans who were its benefactors, although he never entirely proscribed early Bon rituals. Khri srong lde btsan invited the renowned Indian Buddhist preceptor sĀNTARAKsITA to oversee the project of building Bsam yas and to establish the first monastic order in Tibet. According to traditional accounts, local spirits inimical to Buddhism created obstacles that hindered the project, which prompted the Indian abbot to request Khri srong lde btsan to invite the powerful tantric master PADMASAMBHAVA to Tibet in order to aid in their subjugation, after which the establishment of the monastery was able to proceed. Khri srong lde btsan is said to have become a devotee of Padmasambhava, with one of his queens, YE SHES MTSHO RGYAL, becoming the yogin's consort and serving as scribe for many of his GTER MA teachings. Padmasambhava also revived the king's eight-year-old daughter PADMA GSAL after her death in order to bestow a special teaching. According to tradition, at the time of his death, sĀNTARAKsITA warned in his final testament that a mistaken philosophical view would become established in Tibet and advised the king to invite KAMALAsĪLA to come to Tibet in order to dispel it. The view was apparently that of the Northen Chan (BEI ZONG) monk Heshang Moheyan, who had developed a following at the Tibetan court. Kamalasīla was invited and a debate was held between the Indian monk and the Chinese monk, with the king serving as judge. It is unclear whether a face-to-face debate took place or rather an exchange of documents. According to Tibetan sources, the king declared Kamalasīla the winner, named MADHYAMAKA as the official philosophical school of his realm, and banished the Chinese party from his kingdom. (Chinese records describe a different outcome.) This event, variously known as the BSAM YAS DEBATE, the Council of Bsam yas, and the Council of Lhasa, is regarded as one of the key moments in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.
Kielce ::: City in southeast Poland. Jews first settled there in 1868, and numbered 24,000 by the year 1939. Most known for its anti-Jewish pogrom on July 4, 1946, when an angry mob, incited by the rumor that Jews (recently returned to their home town) had killed Polish children for their blood, killed 42 Jews and wounded 50 others. The cemetery has a monument to the 42 Jews, another one to 45 very young children murdered in 1944 and a monument made of gravestones.
king ::: n. --> A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of
lammergeier ::: n. --> A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore
landmark ::: n. --> A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.
Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.
lapidarious ::: a. --> Consisting of stones.
lapidary ::: n. --> An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or
lecanomancy ::: n. --> divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.
lewisson ::: n. --> An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
leylines ::: Ley Lines A term coined by archaeologist Alfred Watkins, these are grid patterns formed by drawing connecting lines between ancient standing stones, stone circles, and other ancient monuments, which are said to mark the intersection of natural earthly energy currents. Many claim these areas are associated with increased paranormal activity, or 'gateways' for supernatural beings.
lias ::: n. --> The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
lithobilic ::: a. --> Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.
lithoclast ::: n. --> An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.
lithofellic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.
lithoglypher ::: n. --> One who curs or engraves precious stones.
lithoglyphic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.
litholatry ::: n. --> The worship of a stone or stones.
lithology ::: n. --> The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.
A treatise on stones found in the body.
Lithomancy: Divination by observing precious stones.
lithomancy ::: n. --> Divination by means of stones.
lithophagous ::: a. --> Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.
lumpfish ::: n. --> A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
Mabinogion (Welsh) A plural form invented by Lady Charlotte Guest and applied to the Mabinogi and other medieval or earlier romances which she translated from Welsh to English. The Mabinogi proper has four branches: the stories of Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed (Pwyll prince of Dyfed); Manawyddan fab Llyr (Manawyddan son of Llyr); Branwen ferch Llyr (Branwen daughter of Llyr); and Math fab Mathonwy. The tales as they come down to us were written down in South Wales some time before the Conquest — in the last two centuries of Welsh independence — and are marked by great beauty of style and literary finish. Matthew Arnold compares them to “peasants’ huts built of the stones of Ephesus”: the substance of them comes from a profound antiquity which, with its wisdom, the latest tellers of them did not fully understand. As to that antiquity: when Bran the Blessed invaded Ireland, we are told, there was no sea between Wales and Ireland, but only two small rivers. These being unbridged, the question arose, how should the hosts of the Island of the Mighty cross them? A question Bran solved by laying down his body from bank to bank, saying: “He who is Chief, let him be the Bridge,” a saying that contains a great part of the secret wisdom of the Druids.
macadamize ::: v. t. --> To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
mangonel ::: n. --> A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.
manna croup ::: --> The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.
The husked grains of manna grass.
Megalithic monuments, more or less similar to Stonehenge, are found widely scattered over the globe, even in the wild Triobrand Islands near New Guinea. To know why such buildings were erected we should need far more knowledge than we have of the actual builders, their ideas and aims, and innumerable other conditions. The subject is connected with what is said about a lost science which could avail itself of the normal latent magical properties of stones.
meteoric ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.
Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.
Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.
microlithic ::: a. --> Formed of small stones.
millstone ::: n. --> One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.
miner ::: n. --> One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
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mole ::: n. --> A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc
moraine ::: n. --> An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
mound ::: n. --> A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
muriform ::: a. --> Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.
Nagkon Wat (Nakhon Wat) An imposing temple — situated about five miles south of Nakhon or Ankhor, the ancient capital of Kampuchea (Cambodia) — composed of three concentric rectangular enclosures, each rising above the other. “After the Pyramids this is the most occult edifice in the whole world. . . . entirely built of stone, the roof included, . . . the stones fitting so closely that the joints are even now hardly discernible” (TG 223).
Name ::: Jhumur: “Hold onto the Name. That is the only power. I remember Mother once told me—because there was a moment when I was attacked by a certain person. She was mad and so had a certain number of people she chose to attack with her vibrations, with her words. If she could she would throw stones. I was very, very young, about 17 or 18. I said, ‘Every time I see her, Mother, I really start to tremble. It has become something so physically terrifying. Once she (the mad person) had thrown a big paperweight, a cement paperweight in the library. It went just past my head, it could have killed me. After that I became really frightened. So Mother told me ‘Nothing will happen to you. Each time you see her just say ‘Ma, Ma, Ma.’ But it was so difficult. Each time I saw her from far I would think, ‘I have to say Ma.’ But when she came close enough I could not say the Name, for a long time, for a very long time. I was so frightened the fear would take the Name away. I knew very well I had to say the Name That is what Mother told me. And one day I could, finally I could and the mad person lost interest in me!”
niagara period ::: --> A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.
Nitika —a genius of precious stones; he presides
*Nyāyānusāra. (C. Shun zhengli lun; J. Junshoriron; K. Sun chongni non 順正理論). In Sanskrit, "Conformity with Correct Principle"; influential VAIBHĀsIKA ABHIDHARMA treatise by SAMGHABHADRA (c. fifth century CE). It is intended as a refutation of VASUBANDHU 's popular ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA and its presentation of what it purports to be the orthodox positions of the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school. The *Nyāyānusāra is both an exposition of the abhidharma philosophy of the Kashmiri Sarvāstivāda Vaibhāsikas and a critical commentary on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhāsya, which advocated many positions that critiqued the Kashmiri Vaibhāsika school. The *Nyāyānusāra is roughly three times its rival text's length and sought to defend the Vaibhāsikas against Vasubandhu's portrayal of their doctrines. For this reason, XUANZANG (who translated the text into Chinese) says that the original title of the text was the *Kosakaraka (C. Jushi bao lun) or "Hailstones upon the Kosa." As but one example of its criticisms, SaMghabhadra's opening critique of Vasubandhu centers on the latter's assumption that abhidharma does not represent the teaching of the Buddha himself. To refute Vasubandhu's misinterpretations, SaMghabhadra cites scriptural passages that prove the Vaibhāsika position, drawn from scripture (SuTRA) but also from the massive ABHIDHARMAMAHĀVIBHĀsĀ compendium of abhidharma. In addition to scriptural citation, SaMghabhadra also resorts to logical argumentation (YUKTI) to refute Vasubandhu's positions, both by exposing the contradictions explicit in Vasubandhu's own presentations of doctrine and by demonstrating how Vasubandhu's positions would undermine fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine. In addition to his challenge of Vasubandhu, SaMghabhadra also criticizes the positions of other Vaibhāsika detractors, including the Dārstāntika teacher srīlāta, and the SAUTRĀNTIKA master Sthavira; SaMghabhadra's goal is thus clearly to defend Vaibhāsika abhidharma against any and all comers. The *Nyāyānusāra is only extant in Xuanzang's eighty-roll Chinese translation (the Sanskrit title is a reconstruction); portions of the original Sanskrit text have, however, been preserved in citations from other Indian texts, such as commentaries to the Abhidharmakosabhāsya by STHIRAMATI, Purnavardhana, and YAsOMITRA.
occidental ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.
ogham ::: n. --> A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc.
Oitzoe (Persian) Also Atizoe. Used by Blavatsky in connection with the Rocks of Destiny and the Rocking-stones (SD 2:346), referring to Pliny who said “In India . . . and Persia, there is a stone called atizoe. . . . which the magi considered necessary at the consecration of a king” (Natural History 27:54).
onager ::: n. --> A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.
A wild ass, especially the koulan.
Open Distributed Processing "standard" (ODP) An attempt to standardise an {OSI} {application layer} communications architecture. ODP is a natural progression from {OSI}, broadening the target of standardisation from the point of interconnection to the end system behaviour. The objective of ODP is to enable the construction of {distributed systems} in a multi-vendor environment through the provision of a general architectural framework that such systems must conform to. One of the cornerstones of this framework is a model of multiple viewpoints which enables different participants to observe a system from a suitable perspective and a suitable level of {abstraction}. (1995-03-10)
Orpheus (Greek) An early religious teacher and reformer in Greece about whom clustered so many legends that in course of time his historic existence came to be disputed. He was, however, an actual historic character, probably born in Thrace about the 13th century BC, lived and taught at Pimpleia on Mount Olympus, revived the ancient wisdom-religion, reformed the then degraded popular religion, and was killed — according to the story — because of it. He gathered pupils or disciples about him, and founded a famous Mystery school from which in time emanated a vast literature, now perished with the exception of the Orphic Hymns, the Lithica (a poem on the nature of precious stones), the Argonautica (which recites the connection of Orpheus with the Argonautic expedition), and some other fugitive fragments — and in our time these are supposed to be apocryphal or of a far later date than Orpheus himself, although certainly containing Orphic elements.
otoliths ::: Dense calcific structures (literally “ear stones”); important in generating the vestibular signals pertinent to balance.
otozoum ::: n. --> An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.
oyster-green ::: n. --> A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.
pavement ::: a hard surface formed of stones, concrete, asphalt, etc. especially as a thoroughfare.
paves ::: covers or lay (a road, walk, etc.) with concrete, stones, or the like, so as to make a firm, level surface. sword-paved.
pavior ::: n. --> One who paves; a paver.
A rammer for driving paving stones.
A brick or slab used for paving.
perrie ::: n. --> Precious stones; jewels.
petrary ::: n. --> An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
Phag mo gru pa Rdo rje rgyal po. (Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo) (1110-1170). A Tibetan scholar and adept who is counted as one of the great disciples of the key BKA' BRGYUD founder SGAM PO PA BSOD NAMS RIN CHEN, and is venerated as the source for many subsequent Bka' brgyud lineages. Born in the 'Bri lung rme shod region of eastern Tibet, Phag mo gru pa's parents died while he was still young. Receiving ordination as a novice Buddhist monk at the age of eight, he studied under a variety of teachers during the early part of his life. At eighteen, he traveled to central Tibet, receiving full ordination at the age of twenty-five. There he trained under a number of BKA' GDAMS pa teachers, and later, under the great SA SKYA master SA CHEN KUN DGA SNYING PO, from whom he received extensive instruction in the tradition of the path and its result (LAM 'BRAS). At the age of forty, he traveled to DWAGS LHA SGAM PO in southern Tibet, where he met Sgam po pa, who became his principal guru. Sgam po pa famously held up a half-eaten ball of parched barley flour mixed with tea and said to Phag mo gru pa, "This is greater than the results of all your previous meditation." After he demonstrated his humility by carrying stones to build a STuPA, Sgam po pa gave Phag mo gru pa the transmission of instructions on MAHĀMUDRĀ meditation and, through their practice, is said to have attained great realization. In 1158, Phag mo gru pa established a simple meditation hut where he lived until his death in 1170; this location later served as the foundation for the influential monastery of GDAN SA MTHIL. Phag mo gru pa was renowned for his strict adherence to the VINAYA, even going on alms rounds, a rare practice in Tibet. Several individuals among his many followers established a number of important branch lineages, the so-called "eight minor Bka' brgyud subsects" (see BKA' BRGYUD CHE BZHI CHUNG BRGYAD) that collectively came to be known as the Phag gru Bka' brgyud.
pietra dura ::: --> Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.
pitch-faced ::: a. --> Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
poecilitic ::: a. --> Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.
Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.
pore ::: v. --> One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones. ::: v. i. --> To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix
portland cement ::: --> A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.
pothole ::: n. --> A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.
quarry-faced ::: a. --> Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
quarry-man ::: n. --> A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
ragwork ::: n. --> A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.
rammer ::: n. --> One who, or that which, rams or drives.
An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity
A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
rejoint ::: v. t. --> To reunite the joints of; to joint anew.
Specifically (Arch.), to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather.
riprap ::: n. --> A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom. ::: v. t. --> To form a riprap in or upon.
robinet ::: n. --> The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
The European robin.
A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
rose-cut ::: a. --> Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.
rubble ::: n. --> Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman&
rubblework ::: n. --> Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
rubies ::: precious stones of a dark or deep red to deep purplish red; often used poetically, such as ruby red cheeks.
Ryoanji. [alt. Ryuanji] (龍安寺). In Japanese, "Dragon Peace Monastery," located in northwest Kyoto and famous for its dry landscape garden (J. karesansui). Originally an estate of the Fujiwara clan, the site was converted into a ZEN temple in 1450 by order of the military leader Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430-1473), a vassal of the Ashikaga shogun. He installed Giten Gensho, the fifth abbot of MYoSHINJI, as its founding religious leader (see KAISAN); since that time the monastery has been affiliated with the Myoshinji branch of the RINZAISHu of Zen Buddhism. The site of bloody fighting during the onin civil war (1467-1477), Ryoanji had to be rebuilt by Hosokawa Katsumoto's son Hosokawa Masamoto between 1488 and 1499. Much of the monastery burned down in 1789 and was subsequently reconstructed. The monastery was a relatively obscure temple in the first half of the twentieth century, but the garden gained great fame in 1949 when it was used in a scene of Ozu Yasujiro's film Banshun (Late Spring). Beginning in the 1950s, the garden began to be described as a "Zen garden" and has since come to be considered one of Japan's cultural masterpieces. The garden has fifteen moss-covered boulders set in a sea of white pebbles. During the nineteenth century, the arrangement of the stones was called "tiger cubs crossing a river," referring to a Chinese folktale, although many other interpretations have been offered in more recent decades. The temple grounds are the burial site of seven Hosokawa lords. Ryoanji was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
Sapphire Many ancient peoples knew how to avail themselves of the magical virtues of precious stones. The sapphire was especially valued because supposed to enshrine some of the influences of Venus as transmitted through other attributes to Luna or the higher aspect of the Moon, and so to be able to induce equanimity and banish evil thoughts. ” ‘The sapphire,’ say the Buddhists, ‘will open barred doors and dwellings (for the spirit of man); it produces a desire for prayer, and brings with it more peace than any other gem; but he who would wear it must lead a pure and holy life’ ” (IU 1:265). Modern authorities surmise that the sappheiros of the Greeks and the sappir of the Bible were our lapis lazuli, while our sapphire was called hyacinthus. The same qualities are attributed to the color blue.
sassanage ::: n. --> Stones left after sifting.
saxifragant ::: a. --> Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. ::: n. --> That which breaks or destroys stones.
scarabee ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).
A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved
scorpion ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
The scorpene.
A painful scourge.
A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.
An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other
scree ::: n. --> A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.
sea scurf ::: --> Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.
sea snail ::: --> A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.
Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
semiprecious ::: a. --> Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.
semolina ::: n. --> The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.
shadd ::: n. --> Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.
shingle ::: n. --> Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one&
silex ::: n. --> Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.
Sinhŭngsa. (神興寺). In Korean, "Divinely Flourishing Monastery"; the third district monastery (PONSA) of the contemporary CHOGYE CHONG of Korean Buddhism, located in Outer Soraksan (Snowy Peaks Mountain) near the town of Sokch'o. The monastery was founded in 652 by the Silla VINAYA master CHAJANG (d.u.; fl. c. mid-seventh century), who named it Hyangsongsa, or City of Fragrances [see GANDHAVATĪ] (monastery), but it has been nicknamed "Monastery of Frequent Changes" because it has changed its location, name, and school affiliation so many times over the centuries. When Hyangsongsa burned down in 698, the Silla Hwaom (C. HUAYAN) teacher ŬISANG (625-702) had it rebuilt three years later near its current site and renamed it Sonjongsa (Meditative Absorption Monastery). The monastery was damaged during the Japanese Hideyoshi invasions of 1592-1598 and burned to the ground in 1642. The three monks who remained after the conflagration each dreamed of a spirit who told them that relocating the monastery's campus would protect it from any future damage by fire, water, or wind. Following the spirit's recommendation, the monks moved the site ten leagues (K. i; C. li) below where the monastery was then located and renamed it Sinhŭngsa, the name it has kept ever since. Sinhŭngsa proper is built on a foundation of natural stone with four large cornerstones. The visitor reaches the monastery along a half-mile-long path that is flanked by reliquaries and memorial stele until reaching the Ilchumun (Single Pillar Gate). Sinhŭngsa's main shrine hall is the Kŭngnak pojon (SUKHĀVATĪ Basilica), which faces west and is decorated on the outside by the ten ox-herding paintings (see OXHERDING PICTURES, TEN). Inside, AMITĀBHA is enshrined together with his companion BODHISATTVAs, AVALOKITEsVARA and MAHĀSTHĀMAPRĀPTA; they sit below a canopy of yellow dragons and in front of a painting of sĀKYAMUNI with an elderly KĀsYAPA and a young-looking ĀNANDA. Right after entering the Ilchumun is found the 14.6-meter (48 foot) high T'ongil Taebul (Unification Great Buddha) sitting on a 4.3 meter (14 foot) pedestal. Casting of this bronze image started in 1987 and was finished ten years later; it is now the largest seated bronze buddha image in the world, larger even than the Japanese KAMAKURA DAIBUTSU (at 13.35 meters, or 44 feet, high). Its pedestal is decorated with images of the sixteen ARHAT protectors of Buddhism (see sOdAsASTHAVIRA). This monastery should be distinguished from the homophonous Sinhŭngsa (Newly Flourishing Monastery), located in the T'aebaek Mountains near the city of Samch'ok in Kangwon province; that temple is the fourth district monastery of the Chogye order.
sinners’ teeth being broken with fiery stones from
sling ::: v. t. --> An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
springal ::: a. --> Alt. of Springall ::: n. --> An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
squilla ::: n. --> Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.
stepping-stone ::: a stone for use in mounting or ascending. Hence, fig. any means or stage of advancement or improvement, or of making progress towards some object. stepping-stones.
Sticks&Stones ::: A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.[An Algebraic Approach to Hardware Description and Verification, L. Cardelli, Thesis, Edinburgh U, 1982].[Sticks&Stones II: A Functional Language VLSI Layout Generation Tool, Andrew Butterfield , Thesis, Trinity College, 1990].
Sticks&Stones "language, functional programming" A {functional}, {polymorphic} {hardware description language} loosely based on {ML} by Lucca Cardelli. ["An Algebraic Approach to Hardware Description and Verification", L. Cardelli, Thesis, Edinburgh U, 1982]. ["Sticks&Stones II: A Functional Language VLSI Layout Generation Tool", Andrew Butterfield "butrfeld@cs.tcd.ie", Thesis, Trinity College, 1990]. (2008-03-04)
Stolas: In demonography, a general of the infernal empire, a demon who teaches mankind astronomy and the properties of precious stones.
stonebow ::: n. --> A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
stonebrash ::: n. --> A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
stonechat ::: n. --> A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
The wheatear.
The blue titmouse.
stoned ::: threw stones at, pelted with stones; esp. put to death by pelting with stones.
stonehenge ::: n. --> An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Stonehenge The well-known megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain, England, the most wonderful prehistoric relic in that country, now preserved as a national monument. The larger stones are about 18 feet high and weigh about 20 tons apiece. There are two concentric circles; the outer circle, now badly interrupted by breaks and disturbances, being a hundred feet in diameter and consisting of upright stones with horizontal ones across the tops, originally forming a continuous structure. The inner circle has no lintels at present. Within is a horseshoe line of great trilithons and monoliths, and inside that another horseshoe of smaller stones. In the center is a large block called the altar. Outside, facing the altar and the opening of the horseshoes, stand two outer stones, believed by some to mark the place of sunrise at the summer solstice about 1680 BC. Some of the stones, including the altar, were brought from a great distance. Transportation of such heavy stones from such a distance would require great skill and organizing power.
stone ::: n. 1. A small piece of rock. 2. Fig. Something resembling stone in shape or hardness. stones, stone-bound, hearth-stone, stepping-stone, stepping-stones, term-stones. 3. Of a person"s expression etc.), like a stone in coldness, hardness, stillness, etc. stone-calm, stone-still. adj. 4. Made of, pertaining to or having the characteristics of stone. Also fig. stone-grip, stone-laws. adv. 5. Completely; totally (usually used in combination).
stone ::: n. --> 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.
A precious stone; a gem.
Something made of stone. Specifically: -
The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or
stoner ::: n. --> One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
One who walls with stones.
Stone(s) There is available numerous testimony as to animated stones, speaking stones, etc. There is the Christ-stone, which followed the Israelites; the Jupiter Lapis swallowed by Saturn; the testimony of Pausanias as to the Grecian worship of stones; the Ophites and Siderites, serpent-stones and star-stones, the former being alleged to have the gift of speech; the baituloi or alleged animated stones mentioned by Sanchoniathon and Philo Byblius; the liafail or speaking stone of Westminster; Pliny’s stones which ran away when a hand approached them; the importance attached to stone monuments and rocking stones; etc. (SD 2:341 et seq). Again, we have the vast subject of talismans and of gems with potent properties.
stony ::: 1. Covered with or full of stones; rocky. 2 . Resembling stone, as in hardness. 3. Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive; rigid; esp. of movement, a look, etc. 4. Rigid, fixed, motionless; destitute of movement or expression: esp. of the eyes or look. stony-eyed.
stony ::: superl. --> Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
stull ::: n. --> A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
tabby ::: n. --> A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
An old maid or gossip.
Tabernacle Used mainly to describe the portable sanctuary instituted during the wandering of the Israelites. The references in the Jewish history before Deuteronomy are different from later writings in the Old Testament which mention a very elaborate edifice containing a courtyard, outer and inner chambers, with sacrificial and atoning rituals, albeit erected so that it could readily be taken down and transferred to another place. The sanctuary referred to in the Priestly Code, however, is the sanctuary of the ark (in Hebrew3 mishkan ha‘eduth, “the tabernacle of revelation”), i.e., the receptacle in which lay the ark of testimony, the chest in which it is alleged that the stones containing the inscriptions of the decalog were placed.
term-stones ::: see term-posts.
Termini (Latin) The boundary stones which Numa ordained that every landholder should set up to mark his land. Annual ceremonies were performed at these stones, called terminalia. Terminus was the Roman divinity presiding over boundaries. The stones were sacred to Hermes-Mercury and are said by Montfaucon to have been cruciform. It was sacrilege to remove them — similar to the Biblical anathemas against him who removes his neighbor’s landmarks.
testudo ::: n. --> A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.
A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A
“The ’Urim and Thummim’ originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two Truths, the two figures of Ra and Thmei being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. . . . Philo Judaeus affirms that Urim and Thummim were ‘the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate,’ and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation” (TG 355-6).
The word has symbolic uses, as in the white stone with a new name inscribed in it, which is given to him that overcomes in Revelations; the stone that the builders rejected; stones in the Guardian Wall; etc.
Tiahuanaco A region near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca on the borders of Peru and Bolivia, the site of cyclopean ruins of vast edifices whose age is unknown. The lake is 12,500 feet above sea level, and owing to its altitude the district is capable of sustaining only a scanty population, yet it was evidently the seat of a great civilization in prehistoric times when the climate appears to have been far milder. Within a comparatively recent period, geologically speaking, the Andes have risen to their present height. Opinions are sharply divided as to the age of the monuments, ten to fifty thousand years having been suggested. Blavatsky inclines to a greater age, suggesting that these remarkable works were erected by people of Lemurian stock, but who actually then were of Atlantean racial connection, and who had inherited at least fragments of the pre-Atlantean-Lemurian tradition. Three main types of pre-Inca constructions exist: the buildings made of enormous polygonal stones, the Tiahuanaco style, and the pre-Inca roads and aqueducts. Markham, in The Incas of Peru, speaking of Tiahuanaco, writes: “The city covered a large area, built by highly skilled masons, and with the use of enormous stones. One 36 ft. by 7 ft. weighs 170 tons, another is 26 ft. by 16 by 6. Apart from the monoliths of ancient Egypt, there is nothing to equal this in any other part of the world . . . The point next in interest to the enormous size of the stones is the excellence of the workmanship. The lines are accurately straight, the angles correctly drawn, the surfaces true planes . . . Not less striking are the statues with heads adorned with curiously shaped head-dresses . . . There is ample proof of the very advanced stage reached by the builders in architectural art.”
torment ::: n. --> An engine for casting stones.
Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. ::: v. t. --> To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict
trebucket ::: n. --> A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force.
A kind of balance for weighing.
trenton period ::: --> A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
trilithon ::: n. --> A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.
tripoli ::: n. --> An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
turnstone ::: n. --> Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake.
two-valued logic "logic" (Commonly known as "{Boolean algebra}") A mathematical system concerning the two {truth values}, TRUE and FALSE and the functions {AND}, {OR}, {NOT}. Two-valued logic is one of the cornerstones of {logic} and is also fundamental in the design of {digital electronics} and {programming languages}. The term "Boolean" is used here with its common meaning - two-valued, though strictly {Boolean algebra} is more general than this. Boolean functions are usually represented by {truth tables} where "0" represents "false" and "1" represents "true". E.g.: A | B | A AND B --+---+-------- 0 | 0 | 0 0 | 1 | 0 1 | 0 | 0 1 | 1 | 1 This can be given more compactly using "x" to mean "don't care" (either true or false): A | B | A AND B --+---+-------- 0 | x | 0 x | 0 | 0 1 | 1 | 1 Similarly: A | NOT A A | B | A OR B --+------ --+---+-------- 0 | 1 0 | 0 | 0 1 | 0 x | 1 | 1 1 | x | 1 Other functions such as {XOR}, {NAND}, {NOR} or functions of more than two inputs can be constructed using combinations of AND, OR, and NOT. AND and OR can be constructed from each other using {DeMorgan's Theorem}: A OR B = NOT ((NOT A) AND (NOT B)) A AND B = NOT ((NOT A) OR (NOT B)) In fact any Boolean function can be constructed using just NOR or just NAND using the identities: NOT A = A NOR A A OR B = NOT (A NOR B) and {DeMorgan's Theorem}. (2003-06-18)
two-valued logic ::: (logic) (Commonly known as Boolean algebra) A mathematical system concerning the two truth values, TRUE and FALSE and the functions AND, OR, NOT. Two-valued logic is one of the cornerstones of logic and is also fundamental in the design of digital electronics and programming languages.The term Boolean is used here with its common meaning - two-valued, though strictly Boolean algebra is more general than this.Boolean functions are usually represented by truth tables where 0 represents false and 1 represents true. E.g.: A | B | A AND B--+---+-------- This can be given more compactly using x to mean don't care (either true or false): A | B | A AND B--+---+-------- Similarly: A | NOT A A | B | A OR B--+------ --+---+-------- OR, and NOT. AND and OR can be constructed from each other using DeMorgan's Theorem: A OR B = NOT ((NOT A) AND (NOT B))A AND B = NOT ((NOT A) OR (NOT B)) In fact any Boolean function can be constructed using just NOR or just NAND using the identities: NOT A = A NOR AA OR B = NOT (A NOR B) and DeMorgan's Theorem.(2003-06-18)
underpinning ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Underpin ::: n. --> The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.
That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already
underpin ::: v. t. --> To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.
University of Edinburgh ::: (body, education) A university in the centre of Scotland's capital. The University of Edinburgh has been promoting and setting standards in education Council of Edinburgh, making it the first post-Reformation university in Scotland, and the first civic university to be established in the British Isles.Known in its early years as King James College, or the Tounis (Town's) College, the University soon established itself internationally, and by the 18th century perspective, has kept Edinburgh at the forefront of new research and teaching developments whilst enabling it to retain a uniquely Scottish character.Edinburgh's academics are at the forefront of developments in the study and application of languages, medicine, micro-electronics, biotechnology, University precincts of many independently-funded, but closely linked, national research institutes .Address: Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9YL, UK.Telephone: +44 (131) 650 1000.See also ABSET, ABSYS, Alice, ASL+, Baroque, C++Linda, Cogent Prolog, COWSEL, Echidna, Edinburgh Prolog, Edinburgh SML, EdML, ELLIS, ELSIE, ESLPDPRO, Extended POPLER, Prolog, Prolog-2, Prolog-Linda, Scheme-Linda, Skel-ML, Standard ML, Sticks&Stones, supercombinators, SWI-Prolog, tail recursion modulo cons, WPOP. (1995-12-29)
University of Edinburgh "body, education" A university in the centre of Scotland's capital. The University of Edinburgh has been promoting and setting standards in education for over 400 years. Granted its Royal Charter in 1582 by James VI, the son of Mary Queen of Scots, the University was founded the following year by the Town Council of Edinburgh, making it the first post-Reformation university in Scotland, and the first civic university to be established in the British Isles. Known in its early years as King James College, or the Tounis (Town's) College, the University soon established itself internationally, and by the 18th century Edinburgh was a leading centre of the European Enlightenment and one of the continent's principal universities. The University's close relationship with the city in which it is based, coupled with a forward-looking, international perspective, has kept Edinburgh at the forefront of new research and teaching developments whilst enabling it to retain a uniquely Scottish character. Edinburgh's academics are at the forefront of developments in the study and application of languages, medicine, micro-electronics, biotechnology, computer-based disciplines and many other subjects. Edinburgh's standing as a world centre for research is further enhanced by the presence on and around University precincts of many independently-funded, but closely linked, national research institutes {(http://ed.ac.uk/)}. Address: Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9YL, UK. Telephone: +44 (131) 650 1000. See also {ABSET}, {ABSYS}, {Alice}, {ASL+}, {Baroque}, {C++Linda}, {Cogent Prolog}, {COWSEL}, {Echidna}, {Edinburgh Prolog}, {Edinburgh SML}, {EdML}, {ELLIS}, {ELSIE}, {ESLPDPRO}, {Extended ML}, {Hope}, {IMP}, {LCF}, {Lisp-Linda}, {Marseille Prolog}, {metalanguage}, {MIKE}, {ML}, {ML Kit}, {ML-Linda}, {Multipop-68}, {Nuprl}, {Oblog}, {paraML}, {Pascal-Linda}, {POP-1}, {POP-2}, {POPLER}, {Prolog}, {Prolog-2}, {Prolog-Linda}, {Scheme-Linda}, {Skel-ML}, {Standard ML}, {Sticks&Stones}, {supercombinators}, {SWI-Prolog}, {tail recursion modulo cons}, {WPOP}. (1995-12-29)
Unless modern science is prepared to make of the physical atom a primordial existence, it must seek the origin elsewhere. Physical matter is a concretion of universal light or radiation; but it needs the eye of a seer to perceive what starry virtue lies sleeping in the gem or the talisman; the skill of the magician to known what can be done by placing stones in a particular grouping, perhaps with certain ceremonies, etc.
Vaijayanti (Sanskrit) Vaijayantī A flag, banner; the masculine noun vaijayanta refers specifically to the emblem of Indra. In the Puranas, used as the name of a magical necklace of Vishnu, “imitated by certain Initiates among the temple Brahmans. It is made of five precious stones, each symbolizing one of the five elements of our Round; namely, the pearl, ruby, emerald, sapphire and diamond, or water, fire, earth, air and ether, called ‘the aggregate of the five elemental rudiments’ — the word ‘powers’ being, perhaps, more correct than ‘rudiments’ ” (TG 358).
vatsalya ::: parental affection, especially of a mother for her child; the vatsalya relation (bhava) with "God the Child", where the isvara is experienced as "the child born to our desire whom we cherish and rear", part of the composite bhava in which "the most intimate human relations" are made "stepping-stones to the supra-human".
voussoir ::: n. --> One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
water joint ::: --> A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
waterworn ::: a. --> Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
“were the instruments of magic divination and oracular communication — theurgic and astrological. This is shown in the following well-known facts: — (1) upon each of the twelve precious stones was engraved the name of one of the twelve sons of Jacob, each of these ‘sons’ personating one of the signs of the zodiac; (2) both were oracular images, like the teraphim, and uttered oracles by a voice, and both were agents for hypnotisation and throwing the priests who wore them into an ecstatic condition. The Urim and Thummim were not original with the Hebrews, but had been borrowed, like most of their other religious rites, from the Egyptians, with whom the mystic scarabaeus, worn on the breast by the Hierophants, had the same functions. . . . when the Jewish ‘Lord God was called upon to manifest his presence and speak out his will through the Urim by preliminary incantations, the modus operandi was the same as that used by all the Gentile priests the world over” (TG 334).
Whetstone "benchmark" The first major {synthetic benchmark} program, intended to be representative for numerical ({floating-point} intensive) programming. It is based on statistics gathered by Brian Wichmann at the {National Physical Laboratory} in England, using an {Algol 60} {compiler} which translated Algol into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine. The compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed. The later {dhrystone} benchmark was a pun on Whetstone. Source code: {C (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/whetstonec.Z)}, {single precision Fortran (ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstones.Z)}, {double precision Fortran (ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstoned.Z)}. ["A Synthetic Benchmark", H.J. Curnow and B.A. Wichmann, The Computer Journal, 19,1 (1976), pp. 43-49]. (1994-11-14)
wich ::: n. --> A variant of 1st Wick.
A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.
A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.
witchcraft ::: Witchcraft Often referred to as sorcery, it is the craft or workings of a witch, i.e. magick or healing through the use of personal power and the latent energies found in candles, stones, herbs, and other natural items, combined with spells.
Zoolatry [from Greek zoon animal + latreia worship] Animal worship; animal symbols are found in all religions, as in the religions of ancient Egypt and in Christianity, as the dove and the lamb. The Maharajas of the four quarters of space are sometimes represented as elephants; most of the zodiacal signs are animals, as the name implies. These symbols should not be regarded as arbitrarily chosen on account of a fancied resemblance: the animals are actually emblems, if not in all cases manifestations, of the powers in question. It is the same with plants and stones: they are not emblems only but actually enshrine certain occult qualities. If plants may have medicinal virtues, and stones possess magical powers, why may not animals have the same? The phrase animal worship implies that the veneration has often been transferred from the power to its symbol or emblem, as in the case of idolatry.
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1:All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God.
~ Plato,#KEYS
2:While God waits for his temple to be built of love,
Men bring stones. ~ Rabindranath Tagore,#KEYS
3:I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Luke, 19:40, #KEYS
4:God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise themselves to Spirit. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #KEYS
5:Why do you amass stones and construct great temples? Why do you vex yourselves thus when God dwells within you ? ~ Vemara, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
6:There is an obscure mind and life even in the cells of the body, the stones or in molecules and atoms. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, The Physical Consciousness, #KEYS
7:To my eyes treasures, diamonds and precious stones are as mere charcoal and coarseness; to my eyes cloth of silk and brocades of price are but rags and tatters. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
8:A screened Necessity drives even the gods.
Over human lives it strides to unseen ends;
Our tragic failures are its stepping-stones. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act IV,#KEYS
9:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
10:Do not lose heart. Obstacles are stepping stones to success. They will develop your will. Do not allow yourself to be crushed by them. Defects remind you of perfection. Sin reminds you of virtue. Chose the positive path. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
11:Let us have always in our hearts this thought: I am a man and nothing that interests humanity is foreign to me. We have a common birth; our society resembles the stones of a road that sustain each other. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
12:You who have been redeemed, consider who it is who hangs on the cross for you, whose death gives life to the dead, whose passing is mourned by heaven and earth, while even the hard stones are split. Consider how great he is; consider what he is. ~ Saint Bonaventure, #KEYS
13:I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer,#KEYS
14:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light.
Out of the Inconscient I build consciousness,
And lead through death to reach immortal Life.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
15:Errors have become stepping-stones, the blind gropings conquests. Thy glory transforms defeats into victories of eternity, and all the shadows have fled before Thy radiant light.
It is Thou who wert the motive and the goal; Thou art the worker and the work.
The personal existence is a canticle, perpetually renewed, which the universe offers up to Thy inconceivable Splendour.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
16:The essential difference between living and non-living matter consists then in this: the living cell synthesizes its own complicated specific material from indifferent or nonspecific simple compounds of the surrounding medium, while the crystal simply adds the molecules found in its supersaturated solution. This synthetic power of transforming small building stones, into the complicated compounds specific for each organism is the 'secret of life, or rather one of the secrets of life." (The Organism as a Whole, by Jacques Loeb.) ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, 58, #KEYS
17:The Temple represents the external Universe. The Magician must take it as he finds it, so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, \Liber VII,\ V:I:2 \We made us a temple of stones in the shape of the Universem even ashou didst wear openly and I concealed.\ This shape is the vesica piscis; but it is only the greeatest Magicians who can thus fashion the Temple. There may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the Magician to reincarnate in a suitable body.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 04: Magick, Part II, Chapter 1, The Temple [49],#KEYS
18:Systematic study of chemical and physical phenomena has been carried on for many generations and these two sciences now include: (1) knowledge of an enormous number of facts; (2) a large body of natural laws; (3) many fertile working hypotheses respecting the causes and regularities of natural phenomena; and finally (4) many helpful theories held subject to correction by further testing of the hypotheses giving rise to them. When a subject is spoken of as a science, it is understood to include all of the above mentioned parts. Facts alone do not constitute a science any more than a pile of stones constitutes a house, not even do facts and laws alone; there must be facts, hypotheses, theories and laws before the subject is entitled to the rank of a science. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, #KEYS
19:2. Refusal of the Call:Often in actual life, and not infrequently in the myths and popular tales, we encounter the dull case of the call unanswered; for it is always possible to turn the ear to other interests. Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or 'culture,' the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones and his life feels meaningless-even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire or renown. Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his minotaur. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #KEYS
20:Central to shamanism is the perception of an otherworld or series of otherworlds. This type of astral or aetheric dimension containing various powers entities and forces allows real effects to be created in this world. The shaman's soul journeys through this dimension while in ecstatic or drug-induced state of trance. The journey may be undertaken for divinatory knowledge, to cure sickness, to deliver a blow to enemies, or to find game animals. Prospective shamans are usually selected from those with a nervous disposition. They may either be assigned to shamanic instruction or are driven to it by a power present in the shamanic culture. Initiation invokes a journey into the otherworld, a meeting with spirits and a death-rebirth experience. In the deathrebirth experience, the candidate has a vision of his body being dismembered, often by fantastic beings or animal spirits, and then reassembled from the wreckage. The new body invariably contains an extra part often described as an additional bone or an inclusion of magical quartz stones or sometimes an animal spirit. This experience graphically symbolizes the location of the aetheric force field within the body or the addition of various extra powers to it.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
21:On a thousand bridges and paths they shall throng to the future, and ever more war and inequality shall divide them: thus does my great love make me speak.
In their hostilities they shall become inventors of images and ghosts, and with their images and ghosts they shall yet fight the highest fight against one another. Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all the names of values-arms shall they be and clattering signs that life must overcome itself again and again.
Life wants to build itself up into the heights with pillars and steps; it wants to look into vast distances and out toward stirring beauties: therefore it requires height. And because it requires height, it requires steps and contradiction among the steps and the climbers.
Life wants to climb and to overcome itself climbing.
And behold, my friends: here where the tarantula has its hole, the ruins of an ancient temple rise; behold it with enlightened eyes Verily, the man who once piled his thoughts to the sky in these stones-he, like the wisest, knew the secret of all life. That struggle and inequality are present even in beauty, and also war for power and more power: that is what he teaches us here in the plainest parable. How divinely vault and arches break through each other in a wrestling match; how they strive against each other with light and shade, the godlike strivers-with such assurance and beauty let us be enemies too, my friends Let us strive against one another like gods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
22:The Examiners
The integral yoga consists of an uninterrupted series of examinations that one has to undergo without any previous warning, thus obliging you to be constantly on the alert and attentive.
Three groups of examiners set us these tests. They appear to have nothing to do with one another, and their methods are so different, sometimes even so apparently contradictory, that it seems as if they could not possibly be leading towards the same goal. Nevertheless, they complement one another, work towards the same end, and are all indispensable to the completeness of the result.
The three types of examination are: those set by the forces of Nature, those set by spiritual and divine forces, and those set by hostile forces. These last are the most deceptive in their appearance and to avoid being caught unawares and unprepared requires a state of constant watchfulness, sincerity and humility.
The most commonplace circumstances, the events of everyday life, the most apparently insignificant people and things all belong to one or other of these three kinds of examiners. In this vast and complex organisation of tests, those events that are generally considered the most important in life are the easiest examinations to undergo, because they find you ready and on your guard. It is easier to stumble over the little stones in your path, because they attract no attention.
Endurance and plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness are the qualities specially needed for the examinations of physical nature.
Aspiration, trust, idealism, enthusiasm and generous self-giving, for spiritual examinations.
Vigilance, sincerity and humility for the examinations from hostile forces.
And do not imagine that there are on the one hand people who undergo the examinations and on the other people who set them. Depending on the circumstances and the moment we are all both examiners and examinees, and it may even happen that one is at the same time both examiner and examinee. And the benefit one derives from this depends, both in quality and in quantity, on the intensity of one's aspiration and the awakening of one's consciousness.
To conclude, a final piece of advice: never set yourself up as an examiner. For while it is good to remember constantly that one may be undergoing a very important examination, it is extremely dangerous to imagine that one is responsible for setting examinations for others. That is the open door to the most ridiculous and harmful kinds of vanity. It is the Supreme Wisdom which decides these things, and not the ignorant human will. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
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1:Precious Stones, Elements, Time Management ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 2:Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 3:One who can move mountains start with the little stones. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 4:The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 5:As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 6:Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 7:Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping-stones to genius. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 8:That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 9:The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 10:Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 11:While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 12:Fit in the big rocks first and the smaller stones will fit between the spaces. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 13:Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 14:Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence - priceless and irreplaceable. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 15:The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 16:I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 17:All life is conscious, all consciousness - alive. Even stones are conscious and alive. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 18:Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 19:That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 20:Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 21:Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 22:Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 23: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, @wisdomtrove 24:Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 25:Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 26:We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 27:Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 28:Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 29:If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 30:Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 31:What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 32:I love pop culture - the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 33:March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 34:Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 35:Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 36:Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 37:Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 38:The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 39:And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 40:They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 41:Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 42:The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 43:Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 44:This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 45:We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 46:My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 47:Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 48:The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 49:Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 50:It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 51:Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 52:Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 53:Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 54:The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 55:Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 56:When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 57:The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 58:I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 59:Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 60:I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 61:Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 62:Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 63:People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 64:When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 65:If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 66:The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 67:The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 68:When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 69:When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 70:Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 71:The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 72:So, before you are tempted to give up or get discouraged, remember all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones that lead to great opportunities in the future. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 73:Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 74:What we want now is an immense awakening of R√¢jasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 75:Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet? ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 76:Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart! ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 77:There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 78:And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 79:Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 80:The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 81:How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men... They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 82:Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. When you're afraid, keep your mind on what you have to do... if you have been thoroughly prepared, you will not be afraid. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 83:One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 84:I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 85:Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 86:I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 87:If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 88:On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 89:Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 90:I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And & 91:Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 92:Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but because Homo sapiens is the only species on earth capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers. Intelligence and toolmaking were obviously very important as well. But if humans had not learned to cooperate flexibly in large numbers, our crafty brains and deft hands would still be splitting flint stones rather than uranium atoms. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 93:In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping. What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks? And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take years Before, finally, you hear them? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 94:Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 95:The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 96:GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 97:I am a free man‚ and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone‚ if He existed! ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 98:People who do not examine themselves are like people with a sickness that closes off their capillaries and therefore corrupts their blood, causing their limbs to go to sleep and atrophy, and resulting in severe chronic diseases because their humors, and therefore the blood that arises from them, are viscous, sticky, irritating, and acidic. People who do examine themselves, however, including the intentions of their will, are like people who are healed from these diseases and regain the vitality they felt when they were young. People who examine themselves in the right way are like ships from Ophir completely filled with gold, silver, and precious stones; before they examined themselves, though, they were like barges loaded down with unclean freight, carting away the filth and excrement from city streets. . . . ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 99:In fact, as time goes by, it becomes easier and easier to replace humans with computer algorithms, not merely because the algorithms are getting smarter, but also because humans are professionalising. Ancient hunter-gatherers mastered a very wide variety of skills in order to survive, which is why it would be immensely difficult to design a robotic hunter-gatherer. Such a robot would have to know how to prepare spear points from flint stones, how to find edible mushrooms in a forest, how to use medicinal herbs to bandage a wound, how to track down a mammoth and how to coordinate a charge with a dozen other hunters. However, over the last few thousand years we humans have been specialising. A taxi driver or a cardiologist specialises in a much narrower niche than a hunter-gatherer, which makes it easier to replace them with AI. Even ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Stones taught me to fly ~ Damien Rice, #NFDB
2:stones are hard everywhere. ~ Romain Rolland, #NFDB
3:Thrown stones were once stars. ~ Steve Aylett, #NFDB
4:Without stones there is no arch. ~ Marco Polo, #NFDB
5:blue and cold as winter stones ~ Darcey Steinke, #NFDB
6:Night. Wind. Stars. Sea. Stones. ~ Tim Willocks, #NFDB
7:Soon we will all eat stones. ~ John D MacDonald, #NFDB
8:We skip the moments like stones. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
9:Castles are Forrests of stones. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
10:Say a prayer at the stones of home ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
11:Are there no stones in heaven ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
12:Genius, like gold and precious stones, ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
13:I build only living stones--men. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
14:Constant dropping wears away stones ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
15:Men who love the Stones are fixated on cock. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
16:We want to evolve; like the Stones. ~ Justin Timberlake, #NFDB
17:Stones make no splash on a frozen lake. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
18:Who remove stones, bruise their fingers. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
19:Some days simply lay on you like stones. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
20:The early firings contained many stones. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
21:You're Wulfric Stone, and stones don't love. ~ Stylo Fantome, #NFDB
22:Mistakes are the stepping stones to success. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
23:People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
24:..and only sticks and stones can break my bones. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
25:Everything had to be done in-between Stones time. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
26:We tossed stones into the water. We just existed. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
27:Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
28:Setbacks are stepping stones to something better. ~ Cash Peters, #NFDB
29:The next world war will be fought with stones. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
30:Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
31:Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
32:Build your house with the stones they hurled at you ~ Erri De Luca, #NFDB
33:May your horse kick stones in your enemy’s teeth, ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
34:understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones ~ Jean Sasson, #NFDB
35:Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
36:Your strength is the strength of stones. Suddenly, ~ Tananarive Due, #NFDB
37:A famous human named Rolling Stones said that. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
38:One who can move mountains start with the little stones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
39:Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
40:You are not wood, you are not stones, but men. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
41:You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
42:Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey. ~ Lolly Daskal, #NFDB
43:I love you like stones fall downwards, like the sun rises. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
44:People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones ~ Amy Klobuchar, #NFDB
45:Precious stones need sculpting before they become gems. ~ Shamim Sarif, #NFDB
46:A temple’s sanctity lies in its soul, not in its stones. ~ Phil Brucato, #NFDB
47:Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
48:Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
49:I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs. ~ Marianne Faithfull, #NFDB
50:Kes wrote that he thoroughly enjoyed Stones Book and added: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
51:There are more imperfect diamonds than flawless stones. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
52:If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
53:Just a golden body throwing stones aimlessly into the sea. ~ John Fowles, #NFDB
54:Stones have been known to move and trees to speak. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
55:There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. ~ John Lydon, #NFDB
56:You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house ~ Curtis Jackson, #NFDB
57:All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God.
~ Plato,#NFDB
58:Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures. ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
59:Everything walks—leaves, stones, rivers. Nothing is still. ~ Clark Strand, #NFDB
60:The Stone Age didn't end because the World ran out of stones ~ Niels Bohr, #NFDB
61:Her bare feet land with light thuds like rain on stones. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
62:Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
63:Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
64:Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them! ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB
65:throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
66:Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
67:I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
68:The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are. ~ Herb Cohen, #NFDB
69:Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
70:I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
71:...the Beatles and the Stones, never the Stones and the Beatles. ~ Rich Cohen, #NFDB
72:But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
73:If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
74:The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
75:You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
76:I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park. ~ Paul Kantner, #NFDB
77:man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones—and ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
78:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
79:Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. ~ Carl Linnaeus, #NFDB
80:The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
81:Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
82:Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
83:Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones. ~ Jann Arden, #NFDB
84:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. ~ John Green, #NFDB
85:The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones— ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
86:The sand whispered, Be separate, the stones taught me, Be hard. ~ Stanley Kunitz, #NFDB
87:This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones. ~ Herbj rg Wassmo, #NFDB
88:I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti) ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
89:Men rise on steppin'-stones of their dead selves to higher things!... ~ Zane Grey, #NFDB
90:Rattle his bones Over the stones It’s only a pauper Who nobody owns ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
91:Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. ~ Philip Zimbardo, #NFDB
92:The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both." ~ William Monahan, #NFDB
93:As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ~ Plato, #NFDB
94:Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been. ~ John Muir, #NFDB
95:Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
96:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
97:The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. ~ Robert Quine, #NFDB
98:through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
99:Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones. ~ Big Jim Sullivan, #NFDB
100:Individual stones are not heroes, but all the stones together are heroic. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
101:I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles. ~ Christopher Owens, #NFDB
102:People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones. ~ Sachin Tendulkar, #NFDB
103:Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
104:Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
105:Where The Purge begins, and the Gates hold, the Stones will crumble… ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
106:But for now, happiness throws stones.
It guards itself.
I wait. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
107:I'm not," Neil said through the stones in his throat. "I'm Nathaniel. ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
108:My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
109:Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart. ~ Lisa Unger, #NFDB
110:Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit. ~ James Howe, #NFDB
111:Small minds just like small stones can never create giant waves. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
112:There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is. ~ Albert Meltzer, #NFDB
113:Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion ~ William Blake, #NFDB
114:Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
115:Stones grow. Plants grow and live. Animals grow, live, and feel”). ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
116:The famous and much photographed stepping stones across the River Dove ~ Stephen Booth, #NFDB
117:There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. ~ Amelia Earhart, #NFDB
118:Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~ Vikki Wakefield, #NFDB
119:I mean, stars and stones. Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
120:Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
121:Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
122:Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
123:You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way. ~ Erich K stner, #NFDB
124:Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones. ~ Phil Collen, #NFDB
125:Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
126:Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
127:Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. ~ Wilfred Owen, #NFDB
128:The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Wrapped ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
129:Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
130:Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
131:Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
132:Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
133:Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
134:That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
135:There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
136:There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. ~ Hugh MacDiarmid, #NFDB
137:There is no street with mute stones and no house without echoes. —Góngora ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
138:Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl. ~ Yasser Arafat, #NFDB
139:Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB
140:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words have the power to destroy me ~ Ellie Messe, #NFDB
141:Stones are raw, they blunt my paw,
but words will never hurt me. ~ David Clement Davies,#NFDB
142:They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones. ~ Joe Diffie, #NFDB
143:We uproot the foundation of morality when we uproot boundary-stones. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
144:I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. ~ Anne Sullivan Macy, #NFDB
145:Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks ~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi, #NFDB
146:Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
147:While God waits for his temple to be built of love, man brings stones.’ Or ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
148:While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
149:Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. ~ Kublai Khan, #NFDB
150:Food for the body, milk for your bones, ice for the bleeding, a belly of stones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
151:If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets. ~ Michele Norris, #NFDB
152:Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
153:Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered ~ Melanie Rawn, #NFDB
154:On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any. ~ Ruskin Bond,#NFDB
155:Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
156:Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
157:Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
158:and the stones, bewitched, can see:
The lost hours and into the past. ~ Laura Kasischke,#NFDB
159:I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
160:I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one. ~ Hugh Jackman, #NFDB
161:Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. . . . ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
162:Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides. ~ Jen Pollock Michel, #NFDB
163:Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
164:The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
165:While God waits for his temple to be built of love,
Men bring stones. ~ Rabindranath Tagore,#NFDB
166:A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
167:A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones; ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
168:God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God. ~ James Robison, #NFDB
169:I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not. ~ Danny Masterson, #NFDB
170:What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
171:I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
172:Just because the wolf pack fears your sling doesn’t mean you stop carrying stones. ~ Ed McDonald, #NFDB
173:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me—such bullshit. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
174:don’t be afraid to make mistakes; they are just the stepping-stones to success. ~ Louis Zamperini, #NFDB
175:is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
176:It is entropy, not energy, that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
177:Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
178:Phantasos: he takes illusory shapes of all inanimate things, earth, stones, rivers, trees. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
179:At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. ~ Annie Leibovitz, #NFDB
180:In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
181:Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
182:Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two. ~ Tracy Lawrence, #NFDB
183:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
184:sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie. ~ John Green, #NFDB
185:Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
186:The boy put the stones in his pouch. From then on, he would make his own decisions. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
187:Is she okay?" Harlen's throat was clogged with stones of fear. "She has to be okay. ~ Erin Kellison, #NFDB
188:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollow points expand on impact. -T-shirt ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
189:Where The Purge begins, the Gates hold, and the Stones crumble, the Fires will burn… ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
190:I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
191:It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones. ~ Carol Tavris, #NFDB
192:It’s the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones. ~ Carol Tavris, #NFDB
193:I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out ~ Anonymous, The Bible, (Lk. 19:40)., #NFDB
194:...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
195:She flourishes and grows green amid ruins; she has ivy for the stones and love for man. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
196:The errors can become stepping-stones, the blind gropings can be changed into conquests. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
197:Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB
198:Ideas and creeds are represented as unheeding stones as the ends of human longing. ~ Justin Cartwright, #NFDB
199:The heels of military boots, striking marble floors, made a sound like thrown stones. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
200:He paused again, letting his words settle like stones falling to the bottom of a pond. ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
201:I’m not insane, I’m neurologically variant,” she snapped back. “Sticks and stones, asshole. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
202:Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors. ~ Leonard Mlodinow, #NFDB
203:Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles. ~ Frederick Sommer, #NFDB
204:This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
205:We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
206:We’ll stand before the piles of stones that used to be weapons, and we’ll build an altar. ~ Sarah Bessey, #NFDB
207:I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
208:Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones. ~ Moby, #NFDB
209:There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
210:When people throw stones at you, don't throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
211:Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be dashed
against the stones. ~ Paul Auster,#NFDB
212:Dark and pregnant clouds gave birth and fist-sized stones of hail hammered the earth. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
213:He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. ~ Anna Katharine Green, #NFDB
214:I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
215:I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. ~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, #NFDB
216:It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
217:Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
218:Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
219:Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
220:You can sink a thing deep, weight it down with stones, but eventually, it will surface. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
221:Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
222:God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
223:I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever! ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
224:In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
225:I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive. ~ Lil B, #NFDB
226:Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
227:The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. ~ Lars Ulrich, #NFDB
228:The rose fell, a brief fragrant blazing meteor before it plummeted to the cold stones, forgotten. ~ Various, #NFDB
229:The souls moving along ... are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible? ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
230:They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us. ~ Hernando Cortes, #NFDB
231:Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
232:But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
233:Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
234:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but grenades and air strikes will silence Allah's throne. ~ Mingo Kane, #NFDB
235:Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
236:This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks? ~ Lowkey, #NFDB
237:When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
238:Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
239:As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. ~ Joanna Russ, #NFDB
240:If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
241:sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
242:Throw your stick and stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you're not gonna break my soul. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
243:Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
244:I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones. ~ Saoirse Ronan, #NFDB
245:Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
246:Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
247:What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
248:Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. ~ Kate Forsyth, #NFDB
249:You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
250:Here is a good philosophy of life: Enjoy the road with flowers; enjoy the road with stones! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
251:I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me. ~ Benmont Tench, #NFDB
252:It’s never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
253:His hatred for her was now as solid as the boards he lay on, as the stones ringing the firepit. ~ Stephen M Irwin, #NFDB
254:I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other. ~ Bryan Stevenson, #NFDB
255:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
256:What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
257:When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks. ~ Bob Geldof, #NFDB
258:When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit. ~ Rachel Field, #NFDB
259:You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
260:Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
261:I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. ~ Mac Miller, #NFDB
262:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone...way down deep, use words. ~ Charles Martin, #NFDB
263:The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
264:Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
265:It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
266:To paraphrase a Rolling Stones song, you can’t always get what you want, but you get what you need. ~ Judith Orloff, #NFDB
267:To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. ~ David Ben Gurion, #NFDB
268:English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones. ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
269:even there a shining is flowing from all the stones
though the eyes are not yet made that can see it ~ W S Merwin,#NFDB
270:Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
271:For a hundred feet, majestic Celtic crosses and flat stones jutted from the emerald green earth. ~ Angela J Townsend, #NFDB
272:Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones. ~ Neil Young, #NFDB
273:Muḥammad is a man, but not like other men. Rather, he is a ruby and other men are like stones. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, #NFDB
274:Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
275:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
276:We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~ Louis Rosenfeld, #NFDB
277:What does not kill you makes you stronger but sticks and stones can break your bones AND words do hurt ~ Chanda Hahn, #NFDB
278:blowing stones
along the road on Mount Asama,
the autumn wind.
~ Matsuo Basho, blowing stones
,#NFDB
279:His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
280:Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of love. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
281:Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
282:Storm also recalls that Syd adored the Beatles, at a time when most of his friends preferred the Stones. ~ Nick Mason, #NFDB
283:The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
284:Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
285:vandalizing the play park, smoking on street corners, and throwing stones at passing cars and children. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
286:As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest. ~ Joanna Russ,#NFDB
287:Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make you go into a corner by myself and cry for hours. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
288:the stones in destiny’s walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
289:You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
290:I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. ~ Ansel Adams, #NFDB
291:I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. ~ Trisha Goddard, #NFDB
292:These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
293:I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
294:Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I?
A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE ~ Jennifer McMahon,#NFDB
295:She came out here...turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
296:9Joshua set up the twelve stones that had beena in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
297:I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career. ~ Nat Hentoff, #NFDB
298:I want to tell them about the stones piling up in my stomach. That my thoughts are tangled and wordless. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
299:Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
300:Some time ago, a man filled with sorrow handed me a bag filled with hope. Those stones were in that bag, ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
301:Take the stones that failure throws at you and build legacies the world will always remember you for. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
302:The Man Pack are angry. They throw stones and talk child’s talk. My mouth is bleeding. Let me run away. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
303:The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
304:Why do you amass stones and construct great temples? Why do you vex yourselves thus when God dwells within you ? ~ Vemara, #NFDB
305:How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you’ve got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
306:Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was. ~ Don Henley, #NFDB
307:Plants, stones, utensils, each thing has its individual feelings, similar to those of men,” Bashō wrote. ~ Jane Hirshfield, #NFDB
308:There on the stones, Joshua copied the law of Moses, which he had written in the presence of the Israelites. j ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
309:West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with ~ Mary Kingsley, #NFDB
310:A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
311:Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
312:And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones. ~ Meg Rosoff, #NFDB
313:Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
314:few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit, ~ Louis de Berni res, #NFDB
315:He fell into sleep then, as a body weighted with stones and wrapped in winding sheets falls into deep water. ~ Cynthia Voigt, #NFDB
316:I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now. ~ Tippi Hedren, #NFDB
317:Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that! ~ Mike Ditka, #NFDB
318:That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
319:The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat. ~ Theodore Roethke,#NFDB
320:who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons — ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
321:Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
322:Why do today’s young men insist on marrying? Was this why we all threw stones at the police, for weddings ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB
323:a few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit, ~ Louis de Berni res, #NFDB
324:And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders. ~ Jeffrey Overstreet, #NFDB
325:Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
326:Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us. ~ Barry Gibb, #NFDB
327:I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
328:I was used to having stones in my hands, but I realized now I needed both hands free to get to work… On me. ~ Benjamin L Corey, #NFDB
329:many dark tales written in pictured symbols, and runes of great beauty were drawn there too or carved upon stones, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
330:We’d play to old age pensioners if they’d have us but we don’t have to. The Stones are taking care of that now. ~ Joe Strummer, #NFDB
331:Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
332:I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. ~ Terry Southern, #NFDB
333:Please tell me you have a plan,” Leo said. “Preferably one that doesn’t involve embedding my pain in the stones. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
334:The Stone Age didn’t end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
335:But ne'er mind. We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
336:God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise themselves to Spirit. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #NFDB
337:I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again. ~ Wolfman Jack, #NFDB
338:sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them. - ~ Amanda Lovelace, #NFDB
339:Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
340:While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan. ~ Celia Imrie, #NFDB
341:batch. They were stones. She’s always doing that sort of thing. Protecting the city from the demons in her head. ~ William Ritter, #NFDB
342:If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
343:Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
344:The sky was incredible that night, the moon nearly full and the stars littering the sky like tossed stones. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
345:When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
346:A father is the one in your life who provides and protects. That is exactly what God has done. —He Still Moves Stones ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
347:Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
348:The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
349:My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo. ~ Christopher Titus, #NFDB
350:Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
351:This grown man who now phones his father to say, "Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy so long, I'd throw stones at it. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
352:Walk out of this with your parents, the stones, and Darroc dead, Ms. Lane, and I‘ll give you the bloody thing. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
353:Do not little strokes—fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings—wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
354:Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones. ~ Mary Parker Follett, #NFDB
355: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, #NFDB
356:Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
357:Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
358:Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
359:Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
360:We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
361:Eldric wore his lazy lion’s smile. He didn’t mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person. ~ Franny Billingsley, #NFDB
362:Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band. ~ Alice Cooper, #NFDB
363:JOB28.3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
364:The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream. ~ Ian Schrager, #NFDB
365:The past is never over; it is never lost. It circles, as the stones circle, as the stars circle, as the sky circles. ~ Kate Constable, #NFDB
366:The silence was deafening, pressing more heavily on Hollyleaf’s ears than the stones that pinned her to the cold floor. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
367:Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
368:I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons. ~ Liam Gallagher, #NFDB
369:Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones. ~ Robert F Kennedy, #NFDB
370:The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
371:The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
372:Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
373:Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
374:A road surrounded by the flowers may take you a place surrounded by only the stones and the garbage or vice versa! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
375:Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie. ~ John Green, #NFDB
376: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, #NFDB
377:I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
378:Never make a roadblock of yourself on trouble's road. No, make yourself a bridge instead, with stones slick as grease. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
379:The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini, #NFDB
380:We are all broken shards of glass, rejected building stones, being fitted into a temple we cannot fully even imagine. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
381:Whoever had come up with the chant “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” had been an idiot. ~ Nevada Barr, #NFDB
382:With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds. ~ Greg Keyes, #NFDB
383:It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
384:Nothing the Rolling Stones ever did was more important than the respect they showed to the music that had inspired them. ~ Stephen Davis, #NFDB
385:places of security to be built upon those towers, that the stones and the arrows of the Lamanites could not hurt them. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
386:Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
387:Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
388:The councilman staggered to one side, his sword clanging on the stones as he clutched at the gushing wound in his neck. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
389:The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
390:We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
391:As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about. ~ Neil Diamond, #NFDB
392:The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
393:Wanting and hating and fearing . . . and misery. As if life itself had fallen on her like stones, all at the age of three. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
394:When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones. ~ Hans Zimmer, #NFDB
395:You’re a legend now, girl, and legends are like rolling stones: Once they get going, it’s best to stay out of their way. ~ Nicholas Eames, #NFDB
396:Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
397:Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
398:I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them. ~ Steve Lillywhite, #NFDB
399:The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio. ~ Bobby Keys, #NFDB
400:I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing. ~ Jeff Beck, #NFDB
401:Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
402:Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
403:Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
404:The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
405:though the pavement-stones, and stones of the walls and houses, were far too hot to have a hand laid on them comfortably. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
406:Ancient stones upon the Lee, dusts of memories gone we see. Once the center, once the all, lost forever, fall the wall. ~ Michael J Sullivan, #NFDB
407:If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. ~ Cennino Cennini, #NFDB
408:I've gotta pocket, gotta pocket full of fae stones," Peri sang as she headed towards the kitchen leaving the girls to follow. ~ Quinn Loftis, #NFDB
409:She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
410:The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
411:There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
412:Among masons, the joint or juncture of two stones, or the interstice between two stones to be filled up with mortar.Dict. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
413:Break break break on thy cold grey stones O sea
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
414:I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath. ~ Rachel Trachtenburg, #NFDB
415:I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
416:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
417:No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
418:they have left a great number of clues for us carved into stone, wood, and metal, enigmatic symbols known as rune stones. ~ Angela J Townsend, #NFDB
419:Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
420:Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones. ~ Jeff Shaara, #NFDB
421:No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
422:Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
423:Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones. ~ Sachin Tendulkar, #NFDB
424:The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live. ~ William McDonough, #NFDB
425:in each of those minute bowls rested a silver spoon! “So little!” marveled Lorrie. “They are carved from cherry stones, my dear. ~ Andre Norton, #NFDB
426:My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
427:Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones. ~ Julie Orringer, #NFDB
428:Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
429:If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
430:know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.’ — Albert Einstein ~ Chris Ryan, #NFDB
431:Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
432:Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
433:The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. ~ James Fenton, #NFDB
434:All you need is stones... If you have enough stones and the water is shallow enough, you can build a city up through the waves. ~ Donna Jo Napoli, #NFDB
435:I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success. ~ Walter Russell, #NFDB
436:I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
437:I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older. ~ Peter Noone, #NFDB
438:What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
439:Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.'
Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch. ~ Italo Calvino,#NFDB
440:Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
441:Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny’s walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
442:...his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks. ~ Eleanor Cameron, #NFDB
443:I find myself wanting to study his lower abdomen, where the muscles are like stepping stones leading the way down to Mr. Happy. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
444:If our hearts are closed, if our hearts are made of stone, the stones find their way into our hands and we are ready to throw them. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
445:I know not with what weapons World War Three will be fought. But I know that World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Dianne Duvall, #NFDB
446:One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
447:This episode made me sorry to be alive, made me envy stones. I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
448:While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
449:You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face. ~ 50 Cent, #NFDB
450:All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy. ~ Plato, #NFDB
451:Buried ever so deep, Piled over with heavy stones, Yet I will Effortlessly dig up the disembodied bones. What am I? I am memories. ~ C L Bevill, #NFDB
452:could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it’s a pile of stones ending in a spire. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
453:Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
454:Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
455:The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
456:You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
457:I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay. ~ Rachel Zoe, #NFDB
458:Mortality, behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones, ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
459:The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ~ Robert McAfee Brown, #NFDB
460:This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones ~ Ralph McTell, #NFDB
461:When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father! ~ Luis E Navia, #NFDB
462:Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me. ~ Alison Krauss, #NFDB
463: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 ~ Iain Rob Wright, #NFDB
464:My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life. ~ Kelly Blatz, #NFDB
465:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
466:First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
467:Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
468:I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. ~ Ato Essandoh, #NFDB
469:No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
470:Sticks and stones can break your bones and words can make you queasy or crazy, the more so when you identify them with what they symbolize ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
471:The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
472:And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for them. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
473:I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too. ~ Adam Levine, #NFDB
474:Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,’ she said softly. ‘They speak what will be, not what we want to hear. ~ Barbara Erskine, #NFDB
475:We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
476:Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
477:Luke looked down at Morgan and shook his head. “Carnelian stones that heal wounds, dead people giving you guys advice, and gut feelings ~ Leighann Dobbs, #NFDB
478:recall a chunk of amber in my family’s cache of precious stones and gems. My skin looks like that now. Baltic amber trapped in sunlight. ~ Sophie Jordan, #NFDB
479:Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
480:These weren’t just any walls, these were the stones of Milderhurst Castle, beneath whose skin the distant hours were whispering, watching. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
481:The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
482:When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
483:And let her loves, when she is dead
Write this above her bones,
"No more she lives to give us bread
Who asked her only stones. ~ Dorothy Parker,#NFDB
484:Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
485:The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better. ~ Enid Blyton, #NFDB
486:Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts... ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
487:March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
488:Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ~ Alcaeus, #NFDB
489:Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
490:When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a a memorial forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
491:All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they’ll start throwing stones, or bombs, with gusto. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
492:At the moment, the Stones were blaring out of the speakers, and Mick Jagger was bemoaning the fact that he didn’t always get what he wanted. ~ Stina Leicht, #NFDB
493:Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
494:Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
495:..I have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
496:I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into. ~ Slash, #NFDB
497:The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter. ~ Eiji Yoshikawa, #NFDB
498:When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
499:I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
500:my old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
501:Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
502:The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
503:the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones. ~ William Dalrymple, #NFDB
504:The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out. ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
505:Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance. ~ Amira Hass, #NFDB
506:Whoever came up with the saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ was talking out of his or her armpit. ~ Malorie Blackman, #NFDB
507:Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
508:But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring? ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
509:He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the dead ~ Catherine Anderson, #NFDB
510:I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
511:I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot! ~ Oksana Baiul, #NFDB
512:No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
513:So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
514:Stones and bones;
snow and frost;
seeds and beans and polliwogs.
Paths and twigs, assorted kisses,
We all know who Susie misses... ~ Alice Sebold,#NFDB
515:The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea. ~ David Allan Coe, #NFDB
516:The Bohane all the while ferried a drag of gravel and stones and the drag swirled drunkenly deep down – it had the sound of chains being swung. ~ Kevin Barry, #NFDB
517:Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
518:But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair. ~ Ronnie Spector, #NFDB
519:I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping. ~ Kara DioGuardi, #NFDB
520:Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. ~ Al Jourgensen, #NFDB
521:Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career]. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
522:Their silence was full of stones. Ifemelu felt like apologizing, although she was not quite sure what she would be apologizing for. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
523:You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
524:I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe,#NFDB
525:On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
526:There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
527:There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records. ~ Syd Barrett, #NFDB
528:For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
529:I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
530:If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. —Drizzt Do’Urden ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
531:but her emotions sit on the throne of her intellect. This is how she’s built, and like any castle, her foundational stones aren’t easily rearranged. ~ Lisa Genova, #NFDB
532:did it ever occur to whoever wrote that stupid adage that hurtful words might be a pretty good indication that sticks and stones are on the way? ~ Brent Hartinger, #NFDB
533:husband “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ Elise Sax, #NFDB
534:One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me." ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
535:Sometimes I float along the river
For its surface I am bound
And there are times stones done fill my pockets
And it's into this river I drown ~ T J Klune,#NFDB
536:And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
537:Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
538:Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
539:Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life. ~ J Oswald Sanders, #NFDB
540:Albert Einstein once said, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Mitchell Zuckoff, #NFDB
541:But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse. ~ Patrick O Brian, #NFDB
542:But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear. ~ Emmi It ranta, #NFDB
543:Dismissal can be a secret form of arrogance, and I held this proudly against the Stones until the light shifted and I caught myself being utterly wrong. ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
544:Men who have done great things, made stepping stones of their failures. The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
545:When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods. ~ Alexei Nikolaevich Tsarevich of Russia, #NFDB
546:When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days. ~ Patty Duke, #NFDB
547:Where I used to imagine you as a girl with a bag full of stones, ready to throw them at any foe who crossed her path, you have become the stone itself. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
548:Words can split logs and start fires and break stones, but they can also hug you and warm you and fight the wars you don’t have the strength to fight. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
549:It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
550:No, this mother purled about her duties like a bubbling brook, and any number of stones hurled at her eddies sank with a harmless rattle to her bed. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
551:Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
552:To my eyes treasures, diamonds and precious stones are as mere charcoal and coarseness; to my eyes cloth of silk and brocades of price are but rags and tatters. ~ id, #NFDB
553:When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over. ~ Steve Stoute, #NFDB
554:Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
555:If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio. ~ Chris Cornell, #NFDB
556:Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls. ~ John Quincy Adams, #NFDB
557:All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth. ~ Isaac Newton, #NFDB
558:We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones. ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
559:I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music. ~ Tommy Bolin, #NFDB
560:I’ve learned that it helps when you’re in love with a mummy to pay attention to little things like curses, adder stones, and long-winded archaeologists. ~ Colleen Houck, #NFDB
561:The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars. ~ Anaxagoras, #NFDB
562:There is an obscure mind and life even in the cells of the body, the stones or in molecules and atoms. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, The Physical Consciousness, #NFDB
563:They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
564:Definitely should have stabbed that motherfucker more. And weighed him down with stones. And chummed the water for sharks or something. Are there sharks here? ~ S T Abby, #NFDB
565:I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
566:I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings. ~ Noel Gallagher, #NFDB
567:Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
568:You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success ~ Rohinton Mistry, #NFDB
569:Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones! ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
570:Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
571:People value shiny stones and lucky charms, but they forget that the most powerful talismans of all are the stories that we tell to ourselves and to others. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
572:...science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the stepping stones to truth. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
573:She knew if you weren’t always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
574:The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
575:To quote Voltaire, ‘Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~ Julie McElwain, #NFDB
576:Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
577:I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan. ~ Catherine McCormack, #NFDB
578:I spent hours dreaming of the sunshine, the way it soaked into the city walls and made the yellow stones hot to lean on hours after the day had ended ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
579:Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts … . — Robert Fulghum ~ Patricia Evans, #NFDB
580:Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
581:I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. ~ John Muir, #NFDB
582:I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way. ~ Filbert Bayi, #NFDB
583:I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney. ~ Glenn Frey, #NFDB
584:Later that night I met a Bulgarian. “In my country, you say to someone you hate, ‘May you build a house from your kidney stones.’” Well, finally, I thought. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
585:The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity. ~ Reginald Horace Blyth, #NFDB
586:Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
587:We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
588:With stones of faith you can build bridges across oceans of doubt, and seas of despair. ‘Success’ is an island in your mind. You can and you will get there. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
589:Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
590:Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963. ~ Gordon Lightfoot, #NFDB
591:define stones as rocks that have been put to use, so that, as the poet Don McKay put it, “What happens between a rock and stone is simply everything human.” At ~ Kate Harris, #NFDB
592:I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
593:. . . people—probably gunrunners and drug dealers—but they were also more than the sum of their bad deeds, and I was in no position to start casting stones. ~ James A Hunter, #NFDB
594:sticks & stones
never broke
my bones,
but words
made me
starve myself
until
you could
see all of them.
-skin & bone ~ Amanda Lovelace,#NFDB
595:The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
596:The world vanished inside a shrieking, whirling ochre haze. Stones and gravel pelted them, drawing flinches from the stallion and grunts of pain from Kalam. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
597:What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
598:... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole. ~ Plato, #NFDB
599:The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
600:The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
601:The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals. ~ Scott Cunningham, #NFDB
602:If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
603:I will not give up the flowers in my heart for stones just because the world is a hard place. The world is only hard because it needs more flower hearted people. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
604:I will not give up the flowers in my heart for stones just because the world is a hard place. The world is only hard because it needs more flower-hearted people. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
605:This place was just a pile of old stones. Pretty stones arranged in intriguing ways, but just old stones.
“And outdated wiring,” her father would have added. ~ Magnus Flyte,#NFDB
606:Sometimes I stand among the stones and wonder. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I weep. Sometimes nothing at all much happens. Life goes on. The dead are everywhere. ~ Thomas Lynch, #NFDB
607:Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside, a darkly cloaked figure moving along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain. ~ Sheri S Tepper, #NFDB
608:The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.' ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
609:The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
610:The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
611:Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. ~ Werner Heisenberg, #NFDB
612:Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts … . — Robert Fulghum Most ~ Patricia Evans, #NFDB
613:You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.... ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
614:Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll any stones out of his way, and must calmly accept his lot even if they roll a few more into it. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
615:As she walked through the dark, stepping softly through the wet stones, she looked ahead to where the first cautious star managed to blink through the clouds. ~ Caragh M O Brien, #NFDB
616:Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ~ Alice Walker,#NFDB
617:Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. ~ Anodea Judith, #NFDB
618:I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script. ~ Melissa Leo, #NFDB
619:The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
620:Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly . ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
621:For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
622:Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion. Las prisiones son edificadas con piedras de la Ley, los burdeles con ladrillos de la Religión. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
623:Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is. ~ John Seagall, #NFDB
624:The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
625:The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
626:To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
627:Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones; you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
628:Answer, if you hear the words under the words- otherwise it is just a world with a lot of rough edges, difficult to get through, and our pockets full of stones. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye, #NFDB
629:For I did not yet understand fame, this public demolition of something still forming, onto whose construction site the crowd breaks in, scattering its stones. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
630:[P]erhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung. ~ Susan Griffin, #NFDB
631:When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
632:For A Sad Lady
And let her loves, when she is dead,
Write this above her bones:
"No more she lives to give us bread
Who asked her only stones."
~ Dorothy Parker,#NFDB
633:I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
634:My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
635:Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same. ~ Daniel Black, #NFDB
636:Sometimes, when people think they’re putting obstacles in your path, they’re actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same. ~ Daniel Black, #NFDB
637:Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
638:Two bodies face to face
Are at times two waves
And the night is an ocean.
Two bodies face to face
Are sometimes two stones
And the night a desert. ~ Octavio Paz,#NFDB
639:All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices. ~ Mark Kingwell, #NFDB
640:But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
641:For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung. ~ Susan Griffin, #NFDB
642:I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
643:She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
644:The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
645:Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
646:The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates. ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
647:The sun shone calm and bright on the grass, refreshed by the rain, on the border of pretty stones, on the sparkling yellow rocks. It was a caricature of a happy scene. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
648:This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man. ~ Ramon Magsaysay, #NFDB
649:Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
650:Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
651:I want to follow my heart. And if the path under my feet doesn’t take me in the same direction, I’ll cut a new path. I’ll shave my obstacles down into stepping stones. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
652:The poet Rumi says: "How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
653:A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good. ~ George Sand, #NFDB
654:I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones. ~ Tad Williams, #NFDB
655:This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
656:Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
657:With each word that passes my lips, I feel less heavy. It is as if I am giving him sentences made of stones, and the more I relay, the more of the burden he is carrying. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
658:And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
659:As tae the rest o' ye, tak guard around yon stones. And if they come in force, show them what the Feegles can dae!"
Daft Wullie said, "I can play the harmonica. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
660:I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness. ~ Dorothy Wordsworth, #NFDB
661:I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
662:There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
663:Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
664:No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear. ~ Kohta Hirano, #NFDB
665:The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not. ~ Andrew Loog Oldham, #NFDB
666:The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare, ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
667:...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance. ~ Rohinton Mistry, #NFDB
668:Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
669:Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ~ Jose Marti, #NFDB
670:the voices of the choir ringing off the ancient stones of the cathedral—did not make Arthur believe in God, but it did make him want to believe. The service had been sung ~ Charlie Lovett, #NFDB
671:We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
672:When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything! ~ Ronnie Wood, #NFDB
673:When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice. ~ Gotye, #NFDB
674:Where I used to image you as a girl with a bag full of stones, ready to throw them at any foe who crossed her path, you have become the stone itself. You are steady and able. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
675:The former Saudi oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, once warned his OPEC colleagues something Putin should remember: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
676:The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin! ~ Steve Bivans, #NFDB
677:The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
678:...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
679:If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things. ~ Roz Savage, #NFDB
680:My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
681:...the true God is to be venerated in obscure and fearful Places, with Horror in their Approaches, and thus did our Ancestors worship the Daemon in the form of great Stones. ~ Peter Ackroyd, #NFDB
682:Usually she looked all bright and sunshiny, but the dark stones captured something else in her, the shadows flitting across her face and along the curve of her collarbone. ~ Katharine McGee, #NFDB
683:And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare As You Like It ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
684:Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
685:maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
686:Soon all of this shite-hole will know I am the Greatest Swordsman in the world. You, my friend, will sadly not live to see that day. Such is the fate of stepping-stones. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
687:Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
688:A screened Necessity drives even the gods.
Over human lives it strides to unseen ends;
Our tragic failures are its stepping-stones. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act IV,#NFDB
689:A dehoy who was terribly hobble,
Cast only stones that were cobble
And bats that were ding,
From a shot that was sling,
But never hit inks that were bobble. ~ James Thurber,#NFDB
690:It’s as if the fragrance of the prayers of all those hundreds of years still lingers here in these stones and in these pews, saying God still bends down to hear and answer. ~ Julianna Deering, #NFDB
691:Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,’ she said softly. ‘They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.”
― Barbara Erskine, Sleeper's Castle ~ Barbara Erskine,#NFDB
692:We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. ~ Ronnie Wood, #NFDB
693:Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here? ~ C J Cherryh, #NFDB
694:I think about my dad's favorite expression: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. What is my house made of? Paper, I decide. Like in a pop-up book. Easily collapsible. ~ Julie Buxbaum, #NFDB
695:It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
696:The beautiful colourful stones of the beaches must never forget that they shine because of the waves! Let us always honor the things that turn us into something admirable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
697:These cables will fail eventually, these stones will fall—but not the dream of crossing the mist, the dream of connection. Now that we know it can happen, it will always be here. ~ Kij Johnson, #NFDB
698:When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones? ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
699:If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey. ~ Jeffrey R Holland, #NFDB
700:In school they taught me that way back in caveman times we discovered fire by rubbing stones or sticks together. I’ve been trying ever since. I never got even a tiny spark. My ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
701:white crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
702:Believe me, for I know, you will find something far greater in the woods than in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you cannot learn from the masters. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
703:But of course I could not die. I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next. This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
704:From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order. ~ Plato, #NFDB
705:Maddie shrugged at that. She actually looked like she might start chanting, Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
706:No one told her it was impossible to rapid-fire two stones from a sling, because it had never been done before, and since no one told her she couldn’t, she taught herself to do it. ~ Jean M Auel, #NFDB
707:The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue. ~ Raymond Carver, #NFDB
708:The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
709:With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
710:All London was one grey temple of an awful rite, ring within ring of wizard stones circled about some central place, every circle was an initiation, every initiation eternal loss. ~ Arthur Machen, #NFDB
711:Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. ~ Bryan Adams, #NFDB
712:In Peru," said Gonzalo, "they cure madness by placing the madman next to a flowing river. The water flows, he throws stones into it, his feelings begin to flow again, and he is cured. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
713:The covering stones have been scattered and the corpse itself has been half-consumed by animals. All that is left is a grotesque and bloody gallimaufry of bones, sinew, and innards. ~ Ian McGuire, #NFDB
714:There is nothing like you anywhere among all the stones in the sky, do you realize that? You are the wonder of the cosmos, possibly for embarrassing reasons, but anyway a wonder. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
715:We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
716:58“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
717:But were they Israeli planes dropping leaflets from the sky, or “flights of birds striking us with stones of baked clay” as if we were Ethiopians threatening Mecca in the Qur’an? ~ Hanan Al Shaykh, #NFDB
718:Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
719:If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
720:People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
721:Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
722:The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
723:I don’t know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert just to see the Pyramids,” said the merchant. “They’re just a pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
724:One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB
725:She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
726:Sticks and stones may break bones, but words dig and dig and dig deep into your heart until the hurt resonates, and your heart fails to remember the reason it beats in the first place. ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
727:My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. ~ Michael Franti, #NFDB
728:The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
729:With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing. ~ Shuggie Otis, #NFDB
730:I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well. ~ Steven R McQueen, #NFDB
731:In short, their malice is a veil to hinder them from observing the light of God; their obstinacy renders them harder than stones, so that they never suffer themselves to be subdued. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
732:The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
733:A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song. ~ Rob Zombie, #NFDB
734:My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
735:People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
736:We throw stones though we live in glass houses,
We talk shit like its a cross to bare.
You're only relevant 'til you get older.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer ~ Alex Gaskarth,#NFDB
737:A Christian named Telemaco won sainthood for leaping between two gladiators in the midst of a fight. The crowd made mincemeat of him, pelting him with stones for interrupting the show. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
738:All the first years, their only question had been -- asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stone, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive?" "Is she alive? ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
739:As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy. ~ Steven Chu, #NFDB
740:… but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, #NFDB
741:I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
742:It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
743:Lots of sex tonight,’ she said. ‘The men are a bit threatened by the stones, apparently. The night of the minyana they need to be reassured that their women still want them.’ ‘Reassure away. ~ Lily King, #NFDB
744:Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
745:Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. ~ Ronnie Wood, #NFDB
746:Hurt me once: shame on me. Hurt me twice: shame on me. Hurt me three times: shame on me but fuck you. Hurt me four times and we’ll get severed-head biblical. We will pick up stones. And ~ Trista Mateer, #NFDB
747:More and more aware how the past was made up of stepping stones to now. No coincidences. No accidents. You gravitated toward and attracted the people you were meant to have in your life. ~ Suanne Laqueur, #NFDB
748:Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
749:Sticks and stones can break your bones but names can never hurt you," and how it's all backwards. Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
750:The errors can become stepping-stones, the blind gropings can be changed into conquests. ~ ~ The MotherThe essence is in the emotions, but not of them. The "I" is in the essence, but not of it. Jane Heap, #NFDB
751:Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
752:along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain. On either side the gutters ran with an infant chuckle and gurgle, baby streams being amused with themselves. The ~ Sheri S Tepper, #NFDB
753:The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and I have vivid memories of their angular peculiarities even to-day. ~ Ernest Shackleton, #NFDB
754:these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’* ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
755:I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
756:Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to it splashing across rocks and stones; a lovely sound. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
757:The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
758:Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
759:Music, or a voice; just some trick of the river on stones, the breeze in the hollow oak? The wood had a million voices, changing with every season and every day; you could never know them all. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
760:My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It’s amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me—such bullshit. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
761:PSA102.13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. PSA102.14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
762:Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
763:Whoever said ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ clearly hasn’t been on the receiving end of people who spend the vast majority of their time using hateful words. ~ Matt Shaw, #NFDB
764:Everything was of interest to him,” marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, “people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
765:I realize with regret that my report is not as complete as it should be,” she wrote, “and had fully intended to do better, but we are told that good intentions make excellent paving stones. ~ Caroline Fraser, #NFDB
766:No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. ~ Richard Simmons, #NFDB
767:Quoyle experienced moments in all colors, uttered brilliancies, paid attention to the rich sound of waves counting stones, he laughed and wept, noticed sunsets, heard music in rain, said I do. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
768:For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
769:For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes. ~ Joan Miro, #NFDB
770:Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
771:So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd. ~ DJ Spooky, #NFDB
772:Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
773:...sifting through our thoughts like children going through colored stones -- optimistic, because although some were too dark and some were too sharp, many glittered like precious gems. ~ Amelia Atwater Rhodes, #NFDB
774:6Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your portion; They, they, are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I receive comfort in these? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
775:Taking away men's weapons will be not bring peace. They'll fight with sticks and stones, and tooth and nail. Mapidéré's is a peace supported only by fear, as secure as a nest built on a rotten branch. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
776:When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
777:A small decision not to fix broken roof shingles led to another decision to put off the problem. And another and another. Eventually, given enough time, there will not be two stones left standing. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
778:Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
779:It didn’t happen for a reason, Alann. These things never do. Hurt spills over into hurt, like water over stones. There’s no foreseeing it, no knowing who it will touch, who will be left standing. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
780:I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
781:Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes. ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB
782:I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable. ~ Hugh Jackman, #NFDB
783:I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
784:I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span. ~ LL Cool J, #NFDB
785:Let us have always in our hearts this thought: I am a man and nothing that interests humanity is foreign to me. We have a common birth; our society resembles the stones of a road that sustain each other. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
786:Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn’t want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
787:Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
788:Either there is a God, and that God the perfect heart of truth and loveliness, or all poetry and art is but an unsown, unplanted, rootless flower, crowning a somewhat symmetrical heap of stones. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
789:If I spoke all I think on this point, if I gave my real opinion of some first-rate female characters in first-rate works, where should I be? Dead under a cairn of avenging stones in half an hour. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
790:Earth is our mother. It’s as fertile and nurturing as farmland; as moist as soil and as dry as sand. In its physical manifestations (such as stones), earth represents the densest of the elements. ~ Scott Cunningham, #NFDB
791:Fiiiine. I promised my mom I’d quit anyway. I guess this is two birds, one stone and all.” I cuddled even closer into his chest. “I love it when you call me a bird and threaten to throw stones at me. ~ Aly Martinez, #NFDB
792:It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
793:The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death. ~ Norm MacDonald, #NFDB
794:Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
795:From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. ~ Margot Asquith, #NFDB
796:I dance on the hide of Shere Khan, but my heart is very heavy. My mouth is cut and wounded with the stones from the village, but my heart is very light, because I have come back to the jungle. Why? ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
797:Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
798:Exile in a real place, a place of few bodies and many stones, is just an extension (a packaging) of the other exile, the state of being separated from whatever is left of the center of one’s own history ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
799:Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they ought, and people will get hit with stones that I throw at my neighbor's dogs... ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
800:...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
801:maybe curses aren’t real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
802:Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in your little stones, they will surely bring down giant Goliaths... but you have to make the throw! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
803:Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left. ~ Gene Simmons, #NFDB
804:Though justice be the solid foundation on which a society may be built, it is the transcendent virtue of mercy that lifts that society above the base stones of its foundation and makes it something great. ~ Rayne Hall, #NFDB
805:Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
806:No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave off hunger. Or, as Brown had written in the journal, 'maybe they're just weird. ~ Susan Casey, #NFDB
807:The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
808:But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story. ~ Bob Gaudio, #NFDB
809:Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. The goal of all such persons seems to be to make themselves cuddly and nonthreatening. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
810:Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté. ~ Greil Marcus, #NFDB
811:Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends. ~ Ben Harper, #NFDB
812:When I look at your stones, I remember.” Jace glances over to Annie, Mum, and finally Dad. “I remember what each of these stones mean because I was with Cooper for a lot of them. Falling in love with him. ~ Anyta Sunday, #NFDB
813:Before the Holocaust,” Paul was explaining to Daryl now, “when someone tripped on a paving stone in the road, the folk saying went, A Jew must be buried there. So the stumble stones take the old folk saying ~ Sarah Blake, #NFDB
814:In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
815:They are two brothers whose language to each other is mostly the farm, and the weather, or sport, but it is rarely a language that talks of the past or of what they think and feel. They sit, like stones. ~ Susan Fletcher, #NFDB
816:Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
817:He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
818:I shall never 'go and marry' anyone," observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself, ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
819:The quiet troubling of the river, and the clean, washed stones, and the green all about, and the trees trying to drown their shadows, and the mountain going up and up behind, there is beautiful it was. ~ Richard Llewellyn, #NFDB
820:God doesn’t promise to remove the stones from the path, but He does promise to make them stepping-stones and not stumbling blocks. He promises to help us climb higher because of the difficulties of life. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
821:In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
822:I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
823:The Stones are not the world’s greatest band. Not even the world’s second greatest band. What they are is the world’s most overrated band. And it wasn’t Keith or Mick who wrote “Wild Horses”. It was Gram Parsons. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
824:Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world. ~ Nico, #NFDB
825:Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
826:Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
827:It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
828:A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us. ~ John Fire Lame Deer, #NFDB
829:It says: "Baltic Amber, fifty million years old and full of fire; warm, and enduring like love". Wonderfully romantic, don't you think? Only I don't know how to differntiate thestuff from plain old yellow stones. ~ Meg Rosoff, #NFDB
830:Then the earth boomed beneath her. It crunched and rocked, lifting her like a mother carries a child. All the way out of the water. All the way back to shore. Then the stones dropped Iseult into Aeduan’s arms. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
831:We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
832:Aristophanes said that boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs, they die in earnest. You're going to break my life into splinters, then move on without a second thought. Yes, my lord, you terrify me. ~ Mary Jo Putney, #NFDB
833:If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
834:I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit. ~ Malorie Blackman, #NFDB
835:I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands. ~ Golda Meir, #NFDB
836:Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.
It flung them like stones. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,#NFDB
837:A wide valley of the dead spread out below me, hundreds of them gently tucked into the ground in neat rows, their whispers frozen into the stones above them: I am here. I was here. Remember me. Remember. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
838:Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
839:Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
840:Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
841:You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
842:As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. "Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
843:I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. Im a keen walker, and I love Suffolks big skies. ~ Diana Quick, #NFDB
844:Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice - the foundation stones for a sound democracy. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
845:Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
846:Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
847:That can cause an electrolyte disturbance: hypercalcemia. Stones, bones, moans, groans, thrones, and psychiatric overtones. That’s the mnemonic,” Natasha said, and repeated psychiatric overtones to herself. p.307 ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
848:Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
849:We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet, #NFDB
850:And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
851:I put my faith into stones", he smiled at me across the table. "They do not rot, and they do not lose their value. They are light to carry and easy to keep close." He patted his pocket. "They will never let you down. ~ Celia Rees, #NFDB
852:Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
853:'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . . ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
854:I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient! ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB
855:The hills and trees before me, the worms and lions, stones and tender buds, Daedalus’ loom, all wavered as if they were a fraying dream. Beneath them was the place I truly dwelt, a cold eternity of endless grief. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
856:The "treasure," he declared flatly, did not involve gold or precious stones. On the contrary, it consisted of "incontrovertible proof" that the Crucifixion was a fraud and that Jesus was alive as late as A.D. 45. ~ Michael Baigent, #NFDB
857:Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse. ~ Rudolf Bahro, #NFDB
858:(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it’s a bat cave. (Chris) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
859:One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
860:Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. ~ Kate Forsyth, #NFDB
861:For it looked as if the walls were simply dissolving in the rain; those stones still standing, pale and insubstantial as rice paper, seemed ready to melt away under my very eyes if I just stood there long enough. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
862:How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones? ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
863:There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin? ~ Lars von Trier, #NFDB
864:The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
865:Here's ordinary human love beneath my feet. Fall away, if you must, contemptuous earth; melt, rocks, and shiver, stones. I'll stand my ground, right here. This I've discovered and worked for and earned. This is mine. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
866:I had known contentment before, brief snatches of time in which I pursued solitary pleasure: skipping stones or dicing or dreaming. But in truth, it had been less a presence than an absence, a laying aside of dread: ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
867:The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray. ~ Bono, #NFDB
868:(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.)
Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it’s a bat cave. (Chris) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
869:Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
870:I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
871:Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
872:The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
873:The temple was covered with precious stones for beauty. There was no pragmatic reason for the precious stones. They had no utilitarian purpose. God simply wanted beauty in the temple. God is interested in beauty. ~ Francis A Schaeffer, #NFDB
874:You know already that I will kill you one day. Your last breath will be gasped beneath my paws. Your last drop of blood will be spilled on my fur. Stones will break and the sky will fall when we meet in our final battle. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
875:Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
876:The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians ~ Bernard Membe, #NFDB
877:There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
878:The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons. - Harry Hole ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
879:The water was so cold it made her arms ache, and she soon decided to let the fast-running stream do the washing for her. She soaped the garments well, weighted them down with stones, and then went to join the boys. ~ Lucy Fitch Perkins, #NFDB
880:We come back once more to the simple truth; that at some time too early for these critics to trace, a transition had occurred to which bones and stones cannot in their nature bear witness; and man became a living soul. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
881:For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and yet arrived at that place and time and that body lying still on the soiled and bloodied stones. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
882:He’s taught me everything.
He taught me how to look at things.
He shows me everything there is in flowers.
He shows me how stones are pleasing
When you hold them in your hand
And look at them for a while. ~ Alberto Caeiro,#NFDB
883:I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
884:O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!’ “Miss ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
885:The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
886:Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then throwing them back again, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
887:The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty. ~ Robert Trivers, #NFDB
888:There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
889:They walked to her flat through the rain and they might have been anywhere—Berlin, London, any town where paving stones turn to lakes of light in the evening rain, and the traffic shuffles despondently through wet streets. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
890:Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. Mrs. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
891:We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye. ~ Pablo Neruda,#NFDB
892:We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite regular and official, for most tombstones, like most ballot papers, are marked with a cross. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
893:What had she learned about verbs? In the past and future tenses, the verb came at the end. And in the present it followed the subject. Wherever she went it tailed her. She dragged it behind like a sack of stones. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum, #NFDB
894:You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
895:From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. ~ Thomas Steinbeck, #NFDB
896:I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital. ~ Volker Bertelmann, #NFDB
897:I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck. ~ Emraan Hashmi, #NFDB
898:…joy teaches him
to rise, to stand and move out through
the opening the light has made.
He stands on the green hilltop amid
the cedars, the skewed stones, the earth all
opened doors…
Sabbaths 2001 I ~ Wendell Berry,#NFDB
899:Some seek to act upon the world,
But success will not follow.
The world is inviolable:
It has no beginning and no end.
Those who seek to change it will be changed;
Those who grasp onto stones will find water. ~ Malinda Lo,#NFDB
900:... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb. ~ Elizabeth von Arnim, #NFDB
901:Anybody who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll any stones out of his way, and must calmly accept his lot even if they roll a few more onto it. Only force that in the face of obstacles becomes stronger can win. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
902:He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have time and peace in which to think things out. I did not tell him that a stone mason thinks of little but stones and mortar. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
903:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light.
Out of the Inconscient I build consciousness,
And lead through death to reach immortal Life.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
904:People who say “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” don’t understand how words can be stones, hard and sharp-edged and dangerous and capable of doing so much more harm than anything physical. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
905:There was a deceptive tangling of alleys that gave the impression of a map that shifted behind you, gargoyles tiptoeing away, stones like puzzle pieces rearranging themselves into new configurations while you weren’t looking. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
906:This kind of telescopic compassion is not an uncommon phenomenon, and has a close relative in the kindness one sees displayed toward pampered urban household pets, even as, a stones throw away, homeless people sleep on benches. ~ Sally Mann, #NFDB
907:But what she is experiencing here, in the woods, is more than memory. It is feeling, sensation. She feels Parvati in the tranquility of the blue sky. She feels her in the dancing treetops. In each of the submerged stones. In ~ Thrity Umrigar, #NFDB
908:We are all rocks fallen away from the same great mountain, sometimes finding our way back home by grace. There's no use in throwing stones because, no matter what shape they may take, even they are just another piece of us. ~ Cristen Rodgers, #NFDB
909:When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
910:I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we in turn will inspire them. ~ Renzo Rosso, #NFDB
911:In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
912:The region is a desert of stones, a solitude with a character of its own, an arid spot, which could only be inhabited by beings who had either attained to absolute nullity, or were gifted with some abnormal strength of soul. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
913:There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
914:Words are our slaves: they may be used to fetch a pair of slippers, or to build the great pyramid of Giza: they depend on syntax to make the order of the world manifest, to raise stones into arches and arches into aqueducts. ~ Edward St Aubyn, #NFDB
915:...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world. ~ David Abram, #NFDB
916:As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, I am but dust and ashes.' On the other, For my sake was the world created.' And he should use each stone as he needs it."7-11 ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
917:I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. ~ Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, #NFDB
918:It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
919:The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier. ~ Rob Sheffield, #NFDB
920:En su época podías ser de Chopin o de Frank Sinatra, pero no de ambos; de Manzanero o de los Rolling Stones, de la nueva trova cubana o del rock ácido, pero no podías ser de todos. Los tiempos habían cambiado para mejor. ~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II, #NFDB
921:If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them—not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB
922:I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
923:If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB
924:Right in the centre was a tall bell tower of white stone, from which long ago some princess had leapt onto the stones below, and despite all the centuries that had passed, this incident was vaguely remembered by the townspeople. ~ Victor Pelevin, #NFDB
925:The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
926:If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB
927:It’s the nature of people who are guilty to find others with blame. It’s the nature of humanity, all of us fallen and evil to some degree, that we seek a sinner upon whom we may cast the stones otherwise destined for us. ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
928:Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important.
Like sticks and stones.
But they are wrong.
Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more. ~ Nora Raleigh Baskin,#NFDB
929:Stones and bones;
snow and frost;
seeds and beans and polliwogs.
Paths and twigs, assorted kisses,
We all know who Daddy misses!
His two little frogs of girls, that’s who.
They know where they are, do you, do you? ~ Alice Sebold,#NFDB
930:The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
931:Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. ~ Edward Hoagland, #NFDB
932:Everybody got stones in their passway. You got to step over them or walk around them. You picking them up and carrying them with you. All you got to do is set them down by the side of the road. You ain’t got to carry them with you. ~ August Wilson, #NFDB
933:If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb. ~ Kabir, #NFDB
934:If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ~ Anne Bronte, #NFDB
935:I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal. ~ Ada Limon,#NFDB
936:Leaders understand the unique roles of confidence and caution. Courage requires both. David’s caution did not keep him from the battle, but neither did he allow his confidence to blind him to the need to select his stones with care. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
937:Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
938:Thus he who slandered will see himself in the guise of a cannibal eating his dead brother's flesh, and he who envied as one who cast stones against a wall, which stones, rebounding, put out the eyes of his own children. This ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #NFDB
939:But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
940:From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
941:If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
942:I sat on the floor behind him, putting my legs on either side of his hips so that my calves were over the edge, and I rested my cheek on his bare back. He continued to play and I recognized the tune. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones. ~ D D Prince, #NFDB
943:That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent. ~ Mike McCready, #NFDB
944:There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel. ~ Geerhardus Vos, #NFDB
945:You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
946:Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones,” wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to see how the physicist’s swarming clouds of particles could give rise to the hard-edged world of everyday sight and touch. ~ James Gleick, #NFDB
947:What did Jesus say to you? Thomas said to them: If I tell you one of the words which he said to me, you will take up stones (and) throw them at me; and a fire will come out of the stones (and) burn you up.
[Gospel of Thomas - 13] ~ Marvin W Meyer,#NFDB
948:When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.' ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
949:Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones. ~ Mary Louise Parker, #NFDB
950:I shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
951:Remember us,
Should any free soul come across this place,
In all the countless centuries yet to be,
May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,
Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here by Spartan law, we lie. ~ Frank Miller,#NFDB
952:The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship. ~ Ed Buckner, #NFDB
953:The situations of fear that exist in our lives provide us with stepping stones to step over our fear. On the other side of cowardice is bravery. If we step over properly, we can cross the boundary from being cowardly to being brave. ~ Ch gyam Trungpa, #NFDB
954:When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a “ withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool.” I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
955:(from Beatrix in this case, who quoted the esteemed Swedish botanical taxonomist Carl Linnaeus on how to distinguish minerals from plants, and plants from animals: “Stones grow. Plants grow and live. Animals grow, live, and feel”). ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
956:I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
957:I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
958:This, I told myself, this is the way I shall be condemned to pass my days, turning over words, stray lines, fragments of memory, to see what might be lurking underneath them, as if they were so many flat stones, while I steadily faded. ~ John Banville, #NFDB
959:You have some skill with Nexi stones,” the man went on, calm and placid. He almost sounded disinterested, even. Before Turan could yell a retort, the man caused vines to wrap around Turan’s head, forcing a gag to form across his mouth. ~ Aaron McGowan, #NFDB
960:And in her long nights, in her long house of smoke and miller's stones, she baked the bread we eat in dreams, strangest loaves, her pies full of anguish and days long dead, her fairy-haunted gingerbread, her cakes wet with tears. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
961:Someone coughed nearby, from some huddle of stones, and then spoke. ‘So, who are we fighting for again?’
Fiddler could not place the voice.
Nor the one that replied, ‘Everyone.’
A long pause, and then, ‘No wonder we’re losing. ~ Steven Erikson,#NFDB
962:The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
963:We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
964:Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you knew they were there. Unless you told. ~ Ursula Hegi, #NFDB
965:I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit. ~ John Kendrick Bangs, #NFDB
966:Logic is a feeble reed, friend. “Logic” proved that airplanes can’t fly and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
967:Seymour once said to me - in a crosstown bus, of all places - that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
968:The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval. ~ Wolfgang Koeppen, #NFDB
969:Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy.” Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. “Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us? ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
970:When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
971:Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
972:For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes... ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich, #NFDB
973:I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is kind of a transcendent, amazing gift, so when people come together and they play, I think it's a real special thing. ~ Jonathan Jackson, #NFDB
974:If you choose not to fight against Asroth, then you have already chosen him. Doing nothing does not absolve you of choice. Doing nothing puts you firmly on Asroth’s side and makes you a coward, as well, for not having the stones to admit it. ~ John Gwynne, #NFDB
975:I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order ~ Kurt Vonnegut,#NFDB
976:It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that. ~ Alice Cooper, #NFDB
977:One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds. ~ J E H MacDonald, #NFDB
978:Snow was forecast, and the pavements were hard as iron.You felt it in each step, the bone-cold stones hammering through your frame, because this was what London did, when the weather reminded the city it was temporary: it hunched down tight. ~ Mick Herron, #NFDB
979:There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
980:A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don't want to sound like we're copying anyone, including ourselves, so we're moving on. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
981:And you turned fully to stare at your hand against the wall, and then down at your feet, feeling that constant, faint, grinding vibration traveling through the yellowish stones. Could you hear me, Eolo? Can you hear me now? I’m talking to you. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
982:I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
983:Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren’t real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
984:Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip. Bury the liars and the wicked under stones until they say no more. More weight, hallelujah. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
985:There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase "I'll give it five!" The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels. ~ Gordon Lightfoot, #NFDB
986:The stranded Daoine Sidhe knights of the Dark Court gathered at the ring of ancient standing stones under the pale light of the harvest moon.
Whenever the Daoine Sidhe gathered, they raised the natural energies of the world around them. ~ Thea Harrison,#NFDB
987:We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
988:Adam said nothing as we walked, his gaze fixed on our destination. I always wished he would say something comforting. Anything to reassure me against what I knew was going to come. But he was always as silent as the stones that encased us. ~ Keary Taylor, #NFDB
989:Adversity and hardship are the building stones of character. How can you appreciate good times and savor happiness if you have never dealt with ill fortune, discomfort and sorrow. It’s like a child learning the difference between hot and cold. RW ~ Rob Wood, #NFDB
990:Do you want a half-truth or truth?” “Truth.” “Then you will have to trust me.” His voice was suddenly softer than the fire sounds, melting into the silence within the stones. “Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope. Trust me.” Morgon ~ Patricia A McKillip, #NFDB
991:If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana. ~ Moby, #NFDB
992:I sang from my belly, from my intricate system of female parts, and from those sacs inside me that wouldn't show up on an ultrasound but held all the rocks and stones and broken glass of want and need I'd managed to collect in seventeen years. ~ Nina Malkin, #NFDB
993:Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
994:Mum says when wanting collides with getting, that's the moment of truth. I want to collide. I want to run right into Shadow and let the force spill our thoughts so we can pick each other up and pass each other back like piles of shiny stones. ~ Cath Crowley, #NFDB
995:Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, #NFDB
996:The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hollow vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child’s waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
997:when a couple of members of the Harvard faculty announced all the evidence, Jefferson said, “I would rather believe that two Yankee professors have lied than believe that stones fall from the sky.…” He was a great man. But here he is wrong. ~ Avram Davidson, #NFDB
998:When we really, deeply understand each other, we open the door to creative solutions and third alternatives. Our differences are no longer stumbling blocks to communication and progress. Instead, they become the stepping stones to synergy. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
999:Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in, and removed a live kitten. “Hello, you monstrous little necessity.” “Mrrrrwwwwww,” said the monstrous little necessity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1000:Every blade of the grass was of consequence, and the few scattered stones held an authority that made their solid, separate marks upon the brain - each one with its own unduplicated shape: each rising brightly from the ink of its own spilling. ~ Mervyn Peake, #NFDB
1001:When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly. ~ John Muir, #NFDB
1002:Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity. ~ Bill Whittle, #NFDB
1003:Human beings, for some reason or another, like symmetry. You leave a bunch of them next to a jungle for a couple of days and you'll come back to find an ornamental garden. We take stones and turn them into the Taj Mahal or St. Paul's Cathedral. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
1004:I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1005:It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1006:More things are learnt in the woods than from books; trees and rocks will teach you things not to be heard elsewhere. You will see for yourselves that honey may be gathered from stones and oil from the hardest rock. . . . St. Bernard of Clairvaux ~ Chet Raymo, #NFDB
1007:She opened her eyes as she knifed through the water, and the underwater world danced in light: the sandy bottom shimmered, and beautiful lake stones- Leland blues, agate, jasper, and Petoskey stones- dotted the depths like forgotten gemstones. ~ Viola Shipman, #NFDB
1008:You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
1009:Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
1010:And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don’t know yourself? ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB
1011:I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones. If I lay still and quiet enough, I thought, I could melt into this elemental world of sun, water and wide, open horizon. ~ Elizabeth Buchan, #NFDB
1012:The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
1013:As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs. ~ Hilari Bell, #NFDB
1014:Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1015:He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks its transept pillars: when faith failed, as it sometimes did, he saw the heavens declare the glory of God and heard the stones cry out. ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
1016:Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Chester
There was an Old Person of Chester,
Whom several small children did pester;
They threw some large stones,
Which broke most of his bones,
And displeased that Old Person of Chester.
~ Edward Lear,#NFDB
1017:The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
1018:They walked up the path through the woods, their soft shoes tapping against the stones. They could hear birds fluttering in the air and the wind rustling through the trees around them. Josh hadn’t realized how much he had missed nature until now. ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
1019:This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt who laughs her head off at the funeral. There rises in me the most inappropriate hysteria in this most somber of places. ~ Ellen Meloy, #NFDB
1020:I always knew Fitz would wind up writing; although I figured he’d be a poet or a storyteller. He would play with language the way other children played with stones and twigs, building structures for the rest of us to decorate with our imagination. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1021:O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones. ~ Stephane Mallarme, #NFDB
1022:Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos. ~ Bill Mollison, #NFDB
1023:Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can shatter souls. Choose carefully the words you say to others. Choose wisely the words you say to yourself. Words have a way of becoming truths we believe about ourselves. And what we believe, we become. ~ L R Knost, #NFDB
1024:The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. ~ Meir Kahane, #NFDB
1025:And right now he and Douglas were hiking out beyond town on another warm and marble-round day, the sky blue blown-glass reaching high, the creeks bright with mirror waters fanning over white stones. It was a day as perfect as the flame of a candle. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1026:As long as you want to pay to see a band, what makes the band want to get better? Nothing! Really! The Stones are, God knows, horrible beyond horrible, but it doesn't stop the fans from paying money to see them decompose in front of your very eyes. ~ John Seagall, #NFDB
1027:Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "- Mrrrrwwwwww", said the monstrous little necessity. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
1028:Oh, sure, they’d insisted I take Washington Wife class after I’d inadvertently insulted the Prime Minster of England, but how could I have known he wasn’t willing to admit that the Rolling Stones weren’t half the band Aerosmith was and never would be? ~ Gini Koch, #NFDB
1029:Ravhathos called the life of the poet “the fair and fatal road, of which even the dust and stones are dear to my heart,” and cautioned that those who spend long hours engaged in reading or writing should not be spoken to for seven hours afterward. ~ Sofia Samatar, #NFDB
1030:It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation. ~ John Owen, #NFDB
1031:Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1032:The truth is,
finding that beast may
or may not happen.
But the treasures I've discovered
under the heavy stones
and behind the massive trees
and deep in the dark caves
have created the hunter
and the human
that I am. ~ Jason Reynolds,#NFDB
1033:7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1034:China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith. ~ Chiang Kai shek, #NFDB
1035:Einstein himself, acutely aware of the world’s newfound capacity for annihilation, said in a 1949 interview in Liberal Judaism, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1036:I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history. ~ Glenn Hughes, #NFDB
1037:Nevertheless, in order to produce more equality and uniformity in the defence of any doctrine, its fundamental principles must be committed to writing. May these two volumes therefore serve as the building stones which I contribute to the joint work. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1038:Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth). ~ Hans Hermann Hoppe, #NFDB
1039:Where did you go?" "Around." "The weather was good?" "Yeah." "It didn't rain?" "Nope." "That's good." "Yeah." Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1040:You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can’t understand why the road doesn’t get easier, why God doesn’t remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top, because the bumps are what you can climb on. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1041:23“ For you will be in harmony with the stones of the field, And the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. 24“ You will know also that your tent is secure and at peace, And you will visit your dwelling and fear no loss [nor find anything amiss]. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1042:They were all just chapters in the book, stepping stones. Each was perfect for where we were at the time, and I'm proud of them all. We couldn't have done this film [The Fourth Phase] without the other films pre-dating it and being part of the process. ~ Travis Rice, #NFDB
1043:We sat in silence, listening to strange creaks and groans in the maze, the echo of stones grinding together as tunnels changed, grew, and expanded. The dark made me think about the visions I’d seen of Nico di Angelo, and suddenly I realized something. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1044:What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1045:Whence come the highest mountains? so did I once ask. Then did I learn that they come out of the sea.
That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
1046:Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1047:Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.' ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
1048:. I can still see Ricky on that roof... the sunlight shining in his round dark eyes, eyes dark as the onyx stones on my mother’s silver bracelet. His shiny black hair was matted and shoulder-length. I wondered who cut his hair. My grandmother cut mine. ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
1049:Literally sold his soul? Like, ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia,’ Robert Johnson at the crossroads—” “Like Mephistopheles and your namesake, or the violinist Niccolò Paganini, or the Rolling Stones, yes, exactly.” She paused. “Forget I said that last one. ~ Craig Schaefer, #NFDB
1050:Men do not let anyone seize their estates, and if there is the slightest dispute about their boundaries they rush to stones and arms; but they allow others to encroach on their lives – why, they themselves even invite in those who will take over their lives. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
1051:All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they'll start throwing stones, or bombs, with gusto. In fact, it doesn't take much, because they can be convinced with the bare minimum of encouragement and excuses. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1052:It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;
Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf. ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1053:Rachel looked annoyed. “Do you think he’s embarrassed by us?”
“More likely he’s embarrassed by her,” said Gabriel. “She’s probably a stripper.”
“Professors in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Rachel glared at her brother and stormed out. ~ Sylvain Reynard,#NFDB
1054:She asked me if the schoolteacher and the horsemaster were still at odds, and by this I discerned that Burrich and Galen’s challenge at the Witness Stones had become something of a local legend already. I assured her that peace had been restored. We spent ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1055:There's a lot of music that we've never heard before. It's not like we're just pulling out December's Children by The Rolling Stones and listening to that again and again. We are listening to things we've never heard, but they do tend to be from the past. ~ Ira Kaplan, #NFDB
1056:Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.
They carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today. ~ Neil Young,#NFDB
1057:Present continuously becomes past, and by the time we take stock of it we are in another present, consumed with planning the future, which we do on the stepping-stones of the past. The present is never here. We are hopelessly late for consciousness. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1058:She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been? ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
1059:Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer. ~ Larry Watson, #NFDB
1060:Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French! ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
1061:whirlwinds of light spinning in caverns deep below the ground, men who age backward, stones that speak, and shadows that creep. Rooms that are bigger on the inside than the outside.… Galbatorix is not the only power in the world to be reckoned with, ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
1062:The central aspect I wanted to explore was the path a person takes to get to the point where they can justify doing terrible things in the name of good. What motivations sway them? What stones laid in childhood become the foundation legacies are built on? ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1063:All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.
It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It’s
just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls
stones, echoes of unknown voices – a collective
mishmash of life. ~ Fernando Pessoa,#NFDB
1064:But he found himself rounding syllables like stones in his mouth, silently. He knew he was shy, and thought to be stupid; he was beginning to suspect, thought, that he wasn't stupid. Perhaps not even slow. Merely uneducated. But not, he hoped, uneducable. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1065:I have memories of him that are like jewels, and others that are stones but my memories of you are always consistent, Mama."
"And are they jewels or stones." Alienor asked with a strained smile.
"Neither," Matilda answered. "They are pure gold. ~ Elizabeth Chadwick,#NFDB
1066:there is a world of things out there – rocks and trees and stones and grass and all the things that crawl and run and fly. They are all things in themselves, but we make them sensible to us by giving them meanings that shore up our own views of the world. ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
1067:Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal. ~ James Elkins, #NFDB
1068:You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
1069:A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1070:But here, is this place of eternal bareness and solitude, it seemed that life could never have been. The stark, eroded stones were things that might have been reared by the toil of the dead, to house the monstrous ghouls and demons of primal desolation. ~ Clark Ashton Smith, #NFDB
1071:My father didn’t look at me. He dropped more stones upon a random-looking cairn. The townspeople were slow to get out of our sight. He waited and watched them and didn’t look at me and kept adding to the substance of the hill with the substance of the hill. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
1072:People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
1073:Again see you not that even stones are conquered by time, that high towers fall and rocks moulder away, that shrines and idols of gods are worn down with decay, and that holy divinity cannot prolong the bounds of fate or struggle against the fixed laws of nature? ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
1074:And even childhood was no good any more—not the way it was. No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity? ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1075:I'm taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid."
"I meant in feet," she clarified. Speaking of the mundane gave her a measure of calm.
He eyed his boots a moment and appeared to be doing some rapid calculations. ~ Karen Marie Moning,#NFDB
1076:Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
1077:The door banged open, bringing with it a rush of cold night air. Dried leaves scudded inside, dancing across the floor, plastering themselves like tiny black hands to the stones of the fireplace. The flames within shivered and thinned. The door slammed shut. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1078:The Earth thus started off with vast supplies of heat inside it, and a rocky planet, like any other rock, takes a long time to cool down. Stones in a campfire may still be hot the morning after; a stone the size of the Earth can hold heat for billions of years. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1079:The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
1080:You are alone. You learn how to walk like a man alone. To stroll, to dawdle. To see without looking, to look without seeing. You learn the art of transparency, immobility, inexistence.You learn how to be a shadow and how to look at men as if they were stones. ~ Georges Perec, #NFDB
1081:I don't write stories for you, signora. Not for Italians. For the others. I write them for the outsiders. The ones like me. The ones who long to wander over the old stones, watch the light. Those who, even for a while, want to be in the Italy they dream of. ~ Marlena de Blasi, #NFDB
1082:Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point. Yelling at living thing does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
1083:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
1084:Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.
“I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die,” Seregil gasped.
“Twice is my limit,” croaked Alec, sinking to his knees. ~ Lynn Flewelling,#NFDB
1085:In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine. ~ Leonard Mlodinow, #NFDB
1086:Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic. ~ Rodolfo Llinas, #NFDB
1087:So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
1088:Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1089:That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy. ~ Gustav Mahler, #NFDB
1090:Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember. ~ Dana Gioia, #NFDB
1091:A beam from the everlasting sun of God.
Rude and unresponsive are the stones;
Yet in them divine things lie concealed;
I hear their imprisoned chant:–
“We are fragments of the universe,
Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world: ~ Helen Keller,#NFDB
1092:I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes. ~ Anne Cassidy, #NFDB
1093:Listen to the wind. Hear the stones, taste the moonlight. Feel the spirit of the trees and flowers and creatures that share the night with us. They were the same words that her mother had used when teaching her to appreciate the world when she was a small child. ~ Mary Jo Putney, #NFDB
1094:Star, that looked so long among the stones
And picked from them, half iron and half dirt,
One; and bent and put it to her lips
And breathed upon it till at last it burned
Uncertainly, among the stars its sisters—
Breathe on me still, star, sister ~ Randall Jarrell,#NFDB
1095:The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
1096:There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the root ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
1097:The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1098:I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer,#NFDB
1099:I now realize this was out of fear: I feared that, like so many stones I have met, it would fail to dance. There was a small part of me that wanted the world to be a place where, despite planning officers and EU directives and policemen, a stone might dance. And ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1100:Though fervent was our vow,
Though ruddily ran our pleasure,
Bliss has fulfilled its measure,
And sees its sentence now.
Ache deep; but make no moans:
Smile out; but stilly suffer:
The paths of love are rougher
Than thoroughfares of stones. ~ Thomas Hardy,#NFDB
1101:You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones - ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
1102:A river so clear and transparent that the bright stones suspended within its currents could be seen with the naked eye, glittering with the traces of an incontestable radiance whose depth and distance and truth lay beyond the reaches of any terrestrial imagination. ~ Kevin Fedarko, #NFDB
1103:There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the roots. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
1104:Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us. ~ Bill Viola, #NFDB
1105:And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy's eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head ~ Linda Grant, #NFDB
1106:But fluttery hope suggested that when she was ready to open back up, perhaps all emotions wouldn’t be stones-pressing-chest horrible. She had no specific expectations. She just contemplated that bird’s heartbeat inside her and considered it was time to take a chance. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
1107:If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1108:The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones. ~ Susan Griffin, #NFDB
1109:The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
1110:When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world. ~ Natsuo Kirino, #NFDB
1111:Hoshino found Oshima an appealing young man. Intelligent, well groomed, obviously from a good family. And quite kind. He's got to be gay, right? Not that Hoshino cared. To each his own, was his thinking. Some men talk with stones, and some men sleep with other men. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1112:My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this. ~ Jacqueline Woodson, #NFDB
1113:All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
1114:But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1115:He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
1116:He used to say, God is everywhere. In the work of your hands; in the beating of a bird's wings; in the roots of an oak and in the stones of the riverbed. In the rising of the sun. In the heart of a man. In the wonders we know, and those that are beyond our knowing. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
1117:There were human faces among the angels and demons, mortals among the immortals, flesh amidst the stones. He strained his eyes to quarter the fluted, sculpted masonry. There they were. They were not so hard to find now that he knew what to look for. “Hello!” he called. ~ Ian McDonald, #NFDB
1118:When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
1119:You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
1120:If anything could be a book, there was no telling what you could learn, if you knew what to look for. Smooth river stones spelled out across a mossy floor. Lines drawn in the sand. Or inscribed on the side of a fallen log, half-obscured by twigs and mulch: This is a book. ~ Traci Chee, #NFDB
1121:I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped. ~ Simon de Pury, #NFDB
1122:My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks. ~ Kevin Plank, #NFDB
1123:My self, whose spirit is steel to their dull lead,
What with recalling of the prophecy,
And that our native stones from English arms
Rebel against us, find myself attainted
With strong surprise of weak and yielding fear.
King John – Act IV, scene 7 ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1124:Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you. ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
1125:The past is over. We can read about it in history books. And what if in the future we’re at war again, or we still haven’t elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
1126:We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees. ~ Chief Joseph, #NFDB
1127:You have to listen when the land speaks to you. The stones tell of souls that wept as they passed, the grass whispers of the people who have walked on it, the wind brings you the voices of those you have loved. And the sea knows the name of every person who has ever died. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
1128:I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. ~ Bernard Goldberg, #NFDB
1129:It was still white, and it still glowed under the moon, and the cobbles were still as rounded as old skulls, and the leaves still looked like splashes of blood across the stones, but Rhea felt better. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit. ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
1130:With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1131:A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1132:From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the centuries had so drenched in blood and violence that, when daylight went out, the ghosts of its dead were its only population. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
1133:It is a way to keep cider sweet without boiling. Let the frost come to freeze them first, solid as stones, and then the rain or a warm winter day to thaw them, and they will seem to have borrowed a flavor from heaven through the medium of the air in which they hang. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1134:For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
1135:He said, "If these were silent, the very stones would cry out." Under the impulse of His spirit arose like a clamorous chorus the facades of the mediaeval cathedrals, thronged with shouting faces and open mouths. The prophecy has fulfilled itself: the very stones cry out. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1136:If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1137:That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits. ~ Dan Auerbach, #NFDB
1138:your voice
in this being unable to move away
from my gaze
things dispossess me
make of me a ship on a river of stones
if your voice is not
rain alone in my feverish silence
you unbind my eyes
and please
may you never stop
speaking
ever ~ Alejandra Pizarnik,#NFDB
1139:[Life] is like a go player who, not wasting a move, gets the jump on his opponent by sacrificing a small advantage to achieve a great one. It is easy, of course, to sacrifice three stones in order to get ten. The hard thing is to sacrifice ten stones in order to gain eleven. ~ Yoshida Kenk, #NFDB
1140:She hadn't planned on having another beer, but then...when did she ever plan to drink another one? They usually just followed one after the other like stepping stones set into a stream, and she hopped along them one at a time until she lost her balance and fell into the drink. ~ Megan Hart, #NFDB
1141:Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1142:The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
1143:Witchcraft is the recourse of the dispossessed,
the powerless, the hungry and the abused.
It gives heart and tongue to stones and trees.
It wears the rough skin of beasts.
It turns on a civilization that knows the
price of everything and the value of nothing. ~ Peter Grey,#NFDB
1144:I put Manderley first, before anything else. And it does not prosper, that sort of love. They don't preach about it in the churches. Christ said nothing about stones, and bricks, and walls, the love that a man can bear for his plot of earth, his soil, his little kingdom. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
1145:It was the voice of a preacher, a voice of the past, a voice for cathedrals, a voice from a time before microphones. It was a voice that denounced witches and flogged sinners. It was a voice that sang Latin while women burned at the stake and men were crushed beneath stones. ~ Grady Hendrix, #NFDB
1146:Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1147:The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1148:This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1149:week, listening to the horrible racket of tumbling, grinding stone, and when they came out, they'd morphed from rocks to treasure? That's what Jessica Morrell does for my books. She's the polisher, my manuscripts are the stones, and the grinding sound is me complaining because ~ Jess Lourey, #NFDB
1150:Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1151:But...you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage."
Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again. ~ Libba Bray,#NFDB
1152:Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water from a well. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1153:Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser. ~ Stephen R Donaldson, #NFDB
1154:Onion You had many layers like an onion. Wait, no, like an artichoke—with your layers arranged like snake scales, not stacked like coats of paint. Be sure to call in a year or so and tell me whether I was lifting heavy stones off your bunker door or plucking petals off your face. ~ Bo Burnham, #NFDB
1155:Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
1156:There were dozens of stones of all sizes in the small meadow. Tall stones, bigger than either of the boys, and small ones, just the right size for sitting on. There were some broken stones. The Runt knew what sort of place this was, but it did not scare him. It was a loved place. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1157:Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1158:The humans stood, staring around, hesitant. Claws reached out, grabbing clothes, ripping them off. People shouted. One man fought back, hurling stones. The marauders grabbed him, knocked him into the dirt, and ripped off his arms. "Clothes off!" rumbled the marauder on the web. ~ Daniel Arenson, #NFDB
1159:There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural symbol. The above-ground tomb does not have to be invented. It is the pile of stones in which the victim of the unanimous stoning is buried. It is the first pyramid. ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
1160:But always remember, I am watching your every move and will be with all of you until the end of all things. Do not let your heart be troubled with the turmoil of the future. Be sure of one thing: the future is already written in the hidden stones of the hearts of those who said ‘yes. ~ J D Netto, #NFDB
1161:It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1162:Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1163:In far-off lands stand the great stones
on which my thoughts rest.
It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words
on the hard board that is called my soul.
Days and nights I lie and think
about things that never happened:
my thirsty soul was once given a drink. ~ Edith S dergran,#NFDB
1164:There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live. ~ Carol Birch, #NFDB
1165:I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are. ~ Jim Bridwell, #NFDB
1166:I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark. ~ Pierre Soulages, #NFDB
1167:There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice. ~ Kate Wilhelm, #NFDB
1168:You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I’ll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I’ll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I’ll turn you into a bad poet with dreams. I’ll set all your toenails growing inward. You mess with me. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
1169:Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones. ~ Dexter Palmer, #NFDB
1170:At our next session, the shrink calls this metaphor psychological warfare. You must rise above it, she says. They're just words being said many miles away.
That phrase about sticks and stones and bones.
But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant. ~ Weike Wang,#NFDB
1171:i am a free man— and i need my freedom. i need to be alone. i need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; i need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1172:It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. The bodies were pulverized into stock and marked with insurance. And ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1173:My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!' ~ Gayle King, #NFDB
1174:The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
1175:When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used. ~ Dogen, #NFDB
1176:If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other. ~ Johannes Kepler, #NFDB
1177:Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific. ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
1178:The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
1179:My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
1180:The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
1181:When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1182:It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard -It dropped so low -- in my Regard -I heard it hit the Ground -And go to pieces on the Stones
At bottom of my Mind -Yet blamed the Fate that flung it -- less
Than I denounced Myself,
For entertaining Plated Wares
Upon My Silver Shelf -~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1183:The Shadow of the Emperor
The Hooded One
Who unmasked night
Who laid the stars like paving stones
Who rode the Thunderbolt
Down the star-cobbled path into day
Was Kane,
The Emperor's twin
Silent, as lightning is silent,
Before the thunder speaks. ~ Patricia A McKillip,#NFDB
1184:The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
1185:It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. ~ Judith Martin, #NFDB
1186:She knew the way of things. She knew if
you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole
world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.
Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard
beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and
wine. . . . ~ Patrick Rothfuss,#NFDB
1187:A cathedral is built with stones; it is made up of stones; but the cathedral ennobles each stone, which becomes a cathedral stone. In the same way, you will only find brotherhood in something larger than yourselves, because one is a brother "in" something, not merely a brother ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1188:Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs. ~ Wafa Sultan, #NFDB
1189:PRAYING It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1190:Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1191:When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1192:Your face, your mouth, your shoulder
inconceivable to me now!
Where did they go? It’s like
I dreamed them. The stones we brought
home from the beach lie face up
on the windowsill, cooling.
Come home. Do you hear?
My lungs are thick with the smoke
of your absence. ~ Raymond Carver,#NFDB
1193:if you ever look at your reflection & feel the desire to tell yourself you’re not good enough, beautiful enough, skinny enough, curvy enough, then i think it’s about time you smashed that mirror to bits, don’t you? - use those fragments to make stepping-stones to your own self-love. ~ Amanda Lovelace, #NFDB
1194:Rumford said a long time ago that “one always finds in nature more than one is looking for.”4 Whether the scholar examines clouds or stones, plants or insects, or whether he goes further and studies the general laws of the world, he continually discovers unexpected wonders everywhere. The ~ lis e Reclus, #NFDB
1195:Day after day, I push the rock that the Society has given me up the hill, over and over again. Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1196:I think I’ve always been an artist. Even as a baby, still clinging to my mother, I had an artist’s eye. I saw shapes in the clouds, and sculptures in the tumbled stones at the bottom of a stream. I grabbed at colors—the crimson flower just out of reach, the ebony bird streaking past. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
1197:Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.”
The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood. ~ Brom,#NFDB
1198:Determined now her tomb to build, Her ample skirt with stones she filled, And dropped a heap on Carron-more; Then stepped one thousand yards to Loar, And dropped another goodly heap; And then with one prodigious leap, Gained carrion-beg; and on its height Displayed the wonders of her might. ~ Sorita d Este, #NFDB
1199:I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys, plains,
That there are trees, flowers, weeds,
That there are rivers and stones,
But there is not a whole these belong to,
That a real and true wholeness
Is a sickness of our ideas. ~ Alberto Caeiro,#NFDB
1200:Sometimes they got lost. Sometimes they didn't want to be found. But it was a big forest and a bigger world, and whenever they went anywhere without each other, they left trails of stones that led all the way back to each other.
Because they loved each other with the biggest love of all. ~ Amy Zhang,#NFDB
1201:All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1202:Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;]], but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day. ~ John Ruskin, Stones of Venice. Vol. I. Ch. II, #NFDB
1203:Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. The agony of our impatience is then so great, that in our wild alarm and hurry we are for getting out and running—hiding—doing anything but stopping. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1204:Everything goes by — men, the seasons, the clouds, and there is no use clinging to the stones, no use fighting it out on some rock in midstream; the tired fingers open, the arms fall back inertly and you are still dragged into the river, the river which seems to flow so slowly yet never stops. ~ Dino Buzzati, #NFDB
1205:Sin is not the adult bookstore on the corner. It is the hard heart, the lack of generosity, and all the isms, racism and sexism and so forth. But is there a crack where a ribbon of light might get in, might sneak past all the roadblocks and piles of stones, mental and emotional and cultural? We ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1206:From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
1207:It Dropped So Low In My Regard
It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;
Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1208:Shouldn’t the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too—that moving on? Shouldn’t there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who’d been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare ~ Laura Kasischke, #NFDB
1209:they’d fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they’d eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other’s curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1210:Blood and battle and years mortared the stones. He wondered suddenly whether they might be riding into a tale themselves; perhaps some traveler in some distant year would look down at this bridge and think, Beguchren Teshrichten crossed the river here to do battle against the country of fire… ~ Rachel Neumeier, #NFDB
1211:Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High’s answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon’s basement, where they held their practice sessions. ~ Francine Pascal, #NFDB
1212:I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
1213:KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
1214:When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1215:All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world. ~ William Law, #NFDB
1216:He sees stones as a counterweight to dynamics, for it is only through their immobility that man's quest becomes visible. You see, without stones we wouldn't notice that we're moving and ..." Colette paused. What on earth was she babbling about? "Stones aren't immobile," said Sidonie after a while. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
1217:I've seen you up close, like this. I remember your eyes. They're the color of the sea -- just inside a coral reef and your freckles are like the stones of a volcanic island scattered along the sand. Your hair is like the sun setting over the water, shooting out orange rays in all directions ~ Melissa Turner Lee, #NFDB
1218:Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
1219:But today, our self-righteousness, our fear, and our anger have caused even the Christians to hurl stones at the people who fall down, even when we know we should forgive or show compassion. I told the congregation that we simply can’t watch that happen. I told them we have to be stonecatchers. ~ Bryan Stevenson, #NFDB
1220:Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion. ~ Kate Pierson, #NFDB
1221:The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
1222:Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had. ~ Paul Engle, #NFDB
1223:As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
1224:In Navashtra, in Saypur, a young girl obeys a strange impulse and sings a song to the stones in a nearby quarry. She and the rest of her family, who are picnicking nearby, stare in fear and confusion as the stones slowly roll down the slopes to spell the words: THANK YOU, THAT WAS LOVELY. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett, #NFDB
1225:The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1226:As Livia dug her keys out of her pocket, she saw that Blake had been to her car.
It was covered with little bits of nature: long blades of grass, twigs, and stones. When she got closer she saw more. Blake had used the flora to spell sorry over and over on the hood. And the roof. And the trunk. ~ Debra Anastasia,#NFDB
1227:But you’d best get moving lad. If we lie here too long our nuts will freeze to the ground.” “Fine words for a pastor,” Jake said. “No man that hath his stones broken shall come nigh to the offerings of the Lord,” the pastor said with a straight face. “Now you’re just making shit up,” Jake replied. ~ William Meikle, #NFDB
1228:Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues. ~ Billy Gibbons, #NFDB
1229:There came a day when the Masons, laying aside their stones, became workmen of another kind, not less builders than before, but using truths for tools and dramas for designs, uplifting such a temple as Watts dreamed of decorating with his visions of the august allegory of the evolution of man. ~ Joseph Fort Newton, #NFDB
1230:We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn’t do this. We mustn’t play Hot Potato with our pain. Let’s absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let’s inhale it, let’s digest it, let’s process it into fuel. ~ Miriam Toews, #NFDB
1231:All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
1232:I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them. ~ Richard Aldington, #NFDB
1233:I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jim’s got the hair on his head, the yell in his mouth, the shirt on his back and the tennis shoes on his feet. How come I think he’s richer? ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1234:Men do not allow anyone to take possession of their estates, and, if there is the slightest dispute about the limit of their property, they rush to pick up stones and weapons: but they are allow others to make inroads into their life, even extending personal invitations to those who will one day possess it. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
1235:Four cables, attached to tracks on the buildings, break through the stones, dragging up the net that encases Mitchell. It makes no sense — how instantly bloodied he is — until we see the barbs sticking from the wire that encases him. I know it immediately. It decorated the top of the fence around 12. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1236:Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved. ~ Scott Cunningham, #NFDB
1237:Sometimes, yes, we do speak to a mountain and it will lift up and be cast into the sea. But I've also learned over my lifetime that it is just as holy and just as ridiculous and just as miraculous for the people of God to pick up their own small shovels and get to work, a million small stones at a time. ~ Sarah Bessey, #NFDB
1238:The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift,
The road is forlorn all day,
Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift,
And the hoof-prints vanish away.
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
Come over the hills and far with me,
And be my love in the rain. ~ Robert Frost,#NFDB
1239:A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
1240:God, you have paved our path
with a thousand invisible stumbling stones
and you have said: woe betide those that stumble!
You see all and you know all. Nothing happens without
your consent, so how can you hold us responsible for
our failures? Can you blame me
that I object to this? ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1241:He had, she realized slowly, a gift for silence. When he chose, it seemed to ebb out of him, the word silence of old trees or stones lying motionless for years. It was measured to his breathing, in his motionless, scarred hands. He moved abruptly, soundlessly, and it flowed with him as he turned... ~ Patricia A McKillip, #NFDB
1242:Oh, I’m not talking about the poor bugger in the pit,” said the philosopher. “I’m talking about the people throwing the stones. They were sure all right. They were sure it wasn’t them in the pit. You could see it in their faces. So glad it wasn’t them that they were throwing just as hard as they could. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1243:On any given day I’m likely to be working here at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences—or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.
--Going, Going, Gone ~ Michael Dirda,#NFDB
1244:The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1245:The Hanlin named his granddaughter Lustrous Jade, for jade was the fairest of stones and possessed five virtues: charity, for its lustre; rectitude, for its translucence; wisdom, for its purity of sound when struck; equity, for its sharp edges that injure none; courage, for it can be broken but not bent. ~ Bette Bao Lord, #NFDB
1246:Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city. ~ Joseph Hall, #NFDB
1247:So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people. ~ DJ Spooky, #NFDB
1248:The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1249:Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
1250:Think about a person who typically sees things differently than you do. Consider ways in which those differences might be used as stepping-stones to third alternative solutions. Perhaps you could seek out his or her views on a current project or problem, valuing the different views you are likely to hear. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1251:Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man’s fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1252:Depending on how high I heaped the stones, each wheelbarrow weighed between 175 and 250 pounds. Once I managed to set it in motion, it was loath to stop without banging me up in some fashion, especially during the thrilling plunge down the backyard hill, when I switched roles from cart pusher to dragging victim. ~ Bob Tarte, #NFDB
1253:Hy gododin catann hue
Hud a lledrith mal wyddan
Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri
Varigal don Fincayra
Dravia, dravia Fincayra
(Talking trees and walking stones,
Giants aare the island's bones.
While this land our dance still knows,
Varigal crowns Fincayra.
Live long, live long Fincayra. ~ T A Barron,#NFDB
1254:When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two 'identical' stones. This is, of course, the question whether the principle of identity of indiscernibles is true and, as I formulated it then, I was bound to fall into confusion about it. ~ Gonzalo Rodriguez Pereyra, #NFDB
1255:As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1256:Do not decorate the walls of your house with the valuable stones from Eubœa and Sparta; but adorn the minds (breasts) of the citizens and of those who administer the state with the instruction which comes from Hellas (Greece). For states are well governed by the wisdom (judgment) of men, but not by stone and wood. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1257:I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
1258:Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1259:The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path. ~ Georg Feuerstein, #NFDB
1260:Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He might become an economic Messias; His mother asked Him to change water into wine that He might become a Savior. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1261:I seen the ring in that tangle of riches and it seemed to dark to be ruby. Might have been garnet, I still don't know for sure. It was like them blood-colored drops of bloodroot sap Macon showed me up on the mountain, a cluster of precious stones the shade of the love that was running all through me dark and deep. ~ Amy Greene, #NFDB
1262:The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1263:I stand alone for several minutes, watching the shadows move across the stones. The mortar that holds them in place is coarse and thick, as if the stones didn't exactly fit together and had to be glued into place. The prince had the entire castle moved from across the sea. A prop for his megalomania. I shiver. ~ Bethany Griffin, #NFDB
1264:Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1265:The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
1266:And speaking of evolution, can we imagine the origin and stepping stones and rejected mutations of Time? Has there ever been a “primitive” form of Time in which, say, the Past was not yet clearly differentiated from the Present, so that past shadows and shapes showed through the still soft, long, larval “now”? ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1267:Her father says to tamp down her imagination. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. Some things are simply more rare than others, and that’s why there are locks. “But, Papa, do you believe it’s real?” “The diamond or the curse?” “Both. Either.” “They’re just stories, Marie. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1268:The Outing
An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods, a silence across the old railroad bridge, an attempt to be friendly in the water, a refusal to end the argument on the flat stones, a cry of anger on the steep bank of dirt, a weeping among the bushes. ~ Lydia Davis,#NFDB
1269:A landscape fossilized,
It's stone-wall patternings
Repeated before our eyes
In the stone walls of Mayo.
Before I turned to go
He talked about persistence,
A congruence of lives,
How, stubbed and cleared of stones,
His home accrued growth rings
Of iron, flint and bronze
- "Belderg ~ Seamus Heaney,#NFDB
1270:Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks. ~ William Carlos Williams,#NFDB
1271:People so staunch and true, they're fixated,
Shining with self-regard like polished stones.
And their whole life spent admiring themselves
For their own long-suffering.
Licking their wounds
And flashing them around like decorations.
I hate it, I always hated it, and I am
A part of it myself. ~ Seamus Heaney,#NFDB
1272:You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people. ~ David Chase, #NFDB
1273:I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
1274:I'm here to present my findings at the symposium. I'm an esteemed member of the Society, with an impressive record of scholarship, and I have something of value to contribute to these proceedings. I also happen to be female. I'm a woman who knows a great deal about rocks. I suggest you find the stones to deal with it. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1275:My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture. ~ Princess Superstar, #NFDB
1276:A student’s life is like the desert, examinations are the hot sun, difficulties are like the warm sand and study is like hunger and thirst. As a student you have to travel all alone collecting knowledge and skill the way the boy in the story collected stones. The more you collect the better is the life you lead later. ~ Sudha Murty, #NFDB
1277:Fragrances linger for decades, and our loved ones may remember us by them, but the legend in each vial clams up the moment we're gone. Our genie speaks to no one. He simply watches as those he's love open and investigates. He's dying to scream with the agony of then Rosetta stones begging to be heart across centuries. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1278:The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life. ~ Charlotte Rampling, #NFDB
1279:The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water. ~ Herodotus, #NFDB
1280:Whenever I wish to do something, I simply speak to the air – or to the stones – or to the sunlight – or the sea – or to whatever it is and politely request them to help me. And then, since my alliances with these powerful spirits were set in place thousands of years ago, they are only too glad to do whatever I ask. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
1281:You must practice the act of connection without attachment,” she said. “Think of us as two stones together at the bottom of a shallow stream. We jostle against each other.” She pushed him gently on the shoulder to illustrate the concept of jostling. “Eventually the stream pulls us apart, or covers us with a fine silt. ~ Amelia Gray, #NFDB
1282:A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
1283:Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. ~ Mahathir Mohamad, #NFDB
1284:The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
1285:Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
There was a time when people kept their fly buttons fastened. And man's freedom was boiling off. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity? ~ John Steinbeck,#NFDB
1286:Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera's eyes were as hard as jade stones. "Thou hast been with the Monkey People--the gray apes--the people without a law--the eaters of everything. That is great shame." "When Baloo hurt my head," said Mowgli (he was still on his back), "I went away, and the gray ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1287:The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has come
to live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoiding
you, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that
Westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stones
weep. And the way we love is no exception ~ Susan Abulhawa,#NFDB
1288:What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone. ~ Dino Buzzati, #NFDB
1289:At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point... ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1290:Were we to hold our peace the stones would cry out; yet if we speak, what shall we say? Teach us to to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe. In Jesus' name, Amen ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1291:One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from an overdose of drugs. I cried tears – my model had died. After this, an exciting new group, the Radha Krishna Temple, came on and sang the Hare Krishna mantra. I immediately felt deep solace. ~ Sacinandana Swami, #NFDB
1292:We were a heap of living creatures, irritated, embarrassed at ourselves, we hadn't the slightest reason to be there, none of us, each one, confused, vaguely alarmed, felt in the way in relation to others. In the way: it was the only relationship I could establish between these, tress, these gates, these stones. . . . ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
1293:The vine needs to suffer. Going down into this earth-fighting to survive among the stones, among the lime rock-this is what gives it its aroma. Its taste. Its unique character. These grapes will create a wine few other vineyards can compare with not because their life was easy, but because they had to struggle to survive. ~ Tessa Afshar, #NFDB
1294:Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
1295:Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.'
I don't beg so much as command to differ. ~ Inga Muscio,#NFDB
1296:As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way…We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, #NFDB
1297:Orion brightened. "I have an idea."
"Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.
"Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other. ~ Eoin Colfer,#NFDB
1298:To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. ~ Colleen Houck, #NFDB
1299:They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather. ~ Jim Morrison, in The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision, #NFDB
1300:You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance. ~ Rohinton Mistry, #NFDB
1301:All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1302:I am not a talking vegetable, as you should be able to see. Even if a planet were to follow the one evolutionary way, out of some many millions, that leads to intelligence, it is impossible that it should duplicate in wood and leaf the form of a human being."
"The same thing might be said of stones, yet there are statues. ~ Gene Wolfe,#NFDB
1303:Jesus transcends the Law, but in the Law's own sense and direction. He does this by appealing to the most humane aspect of the legal prescription, the aspect most foreign to the contagion of violence, which is the obligation of the two accusers to throw the first two stones. The Law deprives the accusers of a mimetic model. Once ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
1304:The fact he promised to assist Borely and Jenba in rescuing Areo helped persuade him to assist the Fiefs Kingdom in its ambition to obtain materials called Haders. They were apparently powerful Nexi stones crafted for the sake of fighting against the Elpis. Precisely what Borely needed to help bring down Augurc and free Areo. ~ Aaron McGowan, #NFDB
1305:But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
1306:Grief is not an event, my dear, but a passage, a pilgrimage along a path that allows us to reflect upon the past from points of remembrance held in the soul. At times the way is filled with stones underfoot and we feel pained by our memories, yet on other days the shadows reflect our longing and those happinesses shared. ~ Jacqueline Winspear, #NFDB
1307:He put a hand to the cool, painted stones bearing witness to so many names, so many histories. In the mural, there were painted lines for the Underground, like scars stretched across the skin of the infected nation. There were wounds and then there were wounds. Some were so great Memphis had no idea how they could ever be healed. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1308:The great march of metal destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is the reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1309:The Broken Sandal"
Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke.
Nothing to hold it to my foot.
How shall I walk?
Barefoot?
The sharp stones, the dirt. I would
hobble.
And–
Where was I going?
Where was I going I can't
go to now, unless hurting?
Where am I standing, if I'm
to stand still now? ~ Denise Levertov,#NFDB
1310:The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them. ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
1311:But the grinding of even soft stones is a tedious and laborious process; granite or diorite, both extremely hard, demand a willingness to endure drudgery that no human group had ever imposed in itself before. Our very word to express ennui, 'boring,' derives from-boring. Here was ritual repetition pushed almost beyond endurance. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
1312:Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak. ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
1313:In Arabic, the name Guadalajara evoked a valley of stones, a valley my ancestors had settled more than eight hundred years earlier. They had carried the disease of empire to Spain, the Spaniards had brought it to the new continent, and someday the people of the new continent would plant it elsewhere. That was the way of the world. ~ Laila Lalami, #NFDB
1314:Somehow, my brother and I grew up motherless yet halfway whole. My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this. ~ Jacqueline Woodson, #NFDB
1315:He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1316:I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni, N’gorso the Mighty, and the Serpent of Silver Plumes! I have rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak, and Prague. I have spoken with Solomon. I have run with the buffalo fathers of the plains. I have watched over Old Zimbabwe till the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people. I am Bartimaeus! ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
1317:We don’t have the luxury of having the Urim and the Thummim,” Wilson said, in a nod to the stones that the Israelite high priest used in Old Testament times to learn God’s will. “Nor do we have a living prophet with us. So we must rely upon the Holy Spirit’s leading in our own Bible study as we review the plain teachings of Scripture. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1318:Yet often these people who are “on our side” are offended as well. So, instead of helping, we stack additional stones on our existing walls. Without our knowing when it happens, these walls of protection become a prison. At that point, we are not only cautious about who comes in, but in terror we cannot venture outside our fortress. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
1319:I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air - but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. ~ Joel Meyerowitz, #NFDB
1320:She knew. She should have moved more gently with the world. She knew the way of things. She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and wine . . . . ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1321:And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as bright as a shilling on this same boy and girl, and if the stones of Blackfriars recalled the thred of their feet and thought to themselves: at last, the wheel comes full circle, they kept their silence. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1322:Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
1323:For three centuries, the Vijayanagara Empire, stood like a mighty bulwark, protecting the Hindu dharma in the South and in the Deccan. It stood like a rock against the Muslim invasions that had ravaged and destroyed large parts of the North. Today it exists only in stones and stories, but its legacy would forever be remembered. ~ Ratnakar Sadasyula, #NFDB
1324:The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1325:I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between. ~ Glen Duncan, #NFDB
1326:Sometimes what we see as wasted time is actually the training ground for what God has in store for us. The lessons we learn and the obstacles we overcome are preparation. Even the rocks you’re struggling to climb over today may be the stepping-stones of tomorrow. God never wastes anything. There is great value in where he has led you. ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
1327:I’ve been shot at, hacked at, pummelled with catapult-stones, doused in flaming oil, tipped into drowning-pits, even covered by a landslide. I’ve seen every kind of violence humans know how to wreak, and I have learnt that you are creatures beyond cruel, beyond vengeful, beyond dishonest. So, yes, Knight. You are all villains in my mind. ~ Ben Galley, #NFDB
1328:Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet, #NFDB
1329:There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1330:the roof of Pluto’s shrine, which was covered with bones and diamonds. As far as Hazel knew, the bones had always been there. The diamonds were her fault. If she sat anywhere too long, or just got anxious, they started popping up all around her like mushrooms after a rain. Several million dollars’ worth of stones glittered on the roof, ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1331:We skipped stones across the creek, which sounds dumb but it wasn't. I don't know. Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seems to be in that light. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1332:Most druids fall into two groups: sticks or stones. Wood has some wonderful properties, but it has a tendency to react too much with the user for my particular taste. Because they retain some of their own innate essence, using wands becomes almost a partnership. You have to be very nature-oriented to use them to their best advantage. ~ Mark Del Franco, #NFDB
1333:Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1334:Lost in the wasteland, Ashbery was found by a light flickering up from between the fractured paving stones. Its beams were bitterly cold, and sticky in a way light had no right to be, adhering to his sleeve and hand before fading away. Intrigued, he tracked its source from one eruption to another, each point brighter than the one before. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
1335:What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1336:All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
1337:From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live. ~ Ashley Walters, #NFDB
1338:A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.
It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents. ~ China Mi ville,#NFDB
1339:Whether it's anger, panic, doubt, tension, nervousness or pressure…you can't let your emotions throw you!
That's the thing you've really gotta learn…to look only at the stones. You can do this through selfobservation and training.
It doesn't matter what your general nature is like, you can acquire the skill to overcome distraction. ~ Yumi Hotta,#NFDB
1340:Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove them off with stones. And hearing their supernatural shrieks, I realized that that was just what I wanted, that only the Sinister could soothe me, and that it was for such a confrontation that I had got up before dawn. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1341:This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone. ~ Kenneth Koch, #NFDB
1342:What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1343:Windisch hears a leaf on the stones in the hallway. It's scratching on the stones. The wall is long and white. Windisch closes his eyes. He feels the wall growing on his face. The lime burns his forehead. A stone in the lime opens its mouth. The apple tree trembles. Its leaves are ears. They listen. The apple tree drenches its green apples. ~ Herta M ller, #NFDB
1344:At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers. ~ Jacques Roumain, #NFDB
1345:Hundreds of hopeless waves rushed constantly shorewards, falling exhausted upon a beach of great loose stones, that seemed to stretch miles and miles in both directions. There was nothing for the eye but mingling shades of gray; nothing for the ear but the rush of the coming, the roar of the breaking, and the moan of the retreating wave. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1346:The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against the stones." Don't read that to me on Sunday morning and say "This is the word of the Lord." It's like that crazy man down in Alabama who wanted to put the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1347:The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB
1348:I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending. ~ Kid Rock, #NFDB
1349:Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America. ~ Charles Chiniquy, #NFDB
1350:Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1351:Alison's words were falling stones. Carole reached to grab them, to hold them, to put them in order. It was so hard, the stones so heavy. The words kept coming. Her daughter's face was before her, her lovely, dear face, and she could no nothing to help her. Not now, not while the voices were drowning her out, burying sense and decency and love. ~ Sonja Yoerg, #NFDB
1352:As I made my desolate way back to the stairs, my wise self took the opportunity to berate me. That is what comes of hope, it said. No good. Still, you are better having missed her. She could never have been equal to her voice. That voice, fair and terrible as burning silver, like moonlight on river stones, like a feather against your lips. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1353:... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them. ~ William James, #NFDB
1354:It wasn’t until the twelfth century that blue found a place on artists’ palettes, when they began to create it through grinding up certain stones. Every Madonna in a medieval painting wore blue robes, every stained glass window contained blue. It’s as if all men decided, at once, that blue was the color of…” I mull the right word… “the divine. ~ Nancy Bilyeau, #NFDB
1355:Sometimes I sit at my window looking out on the towers of the Abbas and weep silently. No one must know how I suffered. No one must know how I failed. Sometimes I go and stand in the ring of stones and it seems to me that my fate is more wretched then theirs. They were turned to stone while they were dancing defiance. I wish I could have been. ~ Victoria Holt, #NFDB
1356:Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1357:If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple. ~ Dhani Harrison, #NFDB
1358:There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
1359:Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1360:All right. Tell me what I'm looking at."
From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips."
I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible.
A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said. ~ Jim Butcher,#NFDB
1361:Art’s despair: its desperate attempt to create the imperishable from what perishes, from words, sounds, stones, colors, so that the space formed might outlast time. Although the mighty build halls, filling them with torches and music, surrounding themselves with bodies and more bodies, and faces and more faces… that too was but a kind of sleep. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
1362:Bullion
MY thoughts
Chink against my ribs
And roll about like silver hail-stones.
I should like to spill them out,
And pour them, all shining,
Over you.
But my heart is shut upon them
And holds them straitly.
Come, You! and open my heart;
That my thoughts torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
~ Amy Lowell,#NFDB
1363:In 2000, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister of Saudi Arabia, gave an interview in which he said: “Thirty years from now there will be a huge amount of oil – and no buyers. Oil will be left in the ground. The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1364:It was through this viewer that he got his first reply from Tralfamadore. The reply was written on Earth in huge stones on a plain in what is now England. The ruins of the reply still stand, and are known as Stonehenge. The meaning of Stonehenge in Tralfamadorian, when viewed from above, is: "Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1365:New Music, I guess, is all those bands Angie listens to. They have names like Depeche Mode and The Smiths and all they sound the same to me - like a bunch of skinny white British nerds on Thorazine. The Stones, when they started, were a bunch of skinny white British nerds too, but they never sounded like they were on Thorazine. Even if they were. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
1366:Strange how mean words can return to ones thoughts, years after they’ve been callously thrown at you. They replay in your mind, spiking a sense of remembered pain. Nasty name calling can be an ugly memory that stabs unexpectedly—not unlike a nightmare where you wake up crying.
Sticks and stones, may break your bones—yet, cruel names can hurt you. ~ Nikki Sex,#NFDB
1367:We shut our eyes to the sky and the sea in the seventies—now in the nineties we open doors to a darker, nearer empire than either, the place that is between stones that touch, that has lived for fifty thousand years in the black guts of caves, for six thousand in the empty rooms of old houses; and one of the doors is the door in this wall of bricks. ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
1368:A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
1369:I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.
I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,
And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.
She has hair as blond as yellow wheat in the sun,
And when she speaks her mouth says things that aren’t words.
She laughs, and her teeth are as clean as stones in a river. ~ Alberto Caeiro,#NFDB
1370:I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones. ~ Mary Louise Parker, #NFDB
1371:I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with bands like Duran Duran or the Stones, whoever it might be. The thing that was attractive to me personally about videos in the beginning was that it was uncharted territory, and in a sense the record companies didn't know what they were doing. ~ Julien Temple, #NFDB
1372:The calligrapher coughed, for his room was very dusty, and there was dust even on his eyelashes, and said: “It is right and proper,” he said, “for a girl to read as many books as there are bricks in this city, and then, when she is finished, to begin to write new ones which are made out of the old ones, as this city is made of those stones. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
1373:The enemies of our soul are real and not to be underestimated, they are to be engaged and not avoided, and they are to be countered using the five smooth stones of Scripture, prayer, fellowship, worship, and discipline. Like David, we must develop our skills in handling our own smooth stones in the power of the Lord. The results will be stunning. ~ Stuart Briscoe, #NFDB
1374:To safeguard the holiest symbol of their Catholic faith, the Toledo churchmen, escorted by a small cohort of armed nobles, had fled with the cathedral's high altar for a fortified place the Muslims would call Wadi al-Hijara ("river of stones")-Guadalajara-some three days' ride frim the capital and but a few miles from the village of Madrid. ~ David Levering Lewis, #NFDB
1375:When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences. ~ Ronnie Montrose, #NFDB
1376:I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists. ~ Gonzalo Rodriguez Pereyra, #NFDB
1377:The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways. ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
1378:If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place. ~ Ulrike Meinhof, #NFDB
1379:imagine a flock of birds flying.
How many birds did you see? Eleven, nineteen five?Y You have a vague idea, but you don't know the exact number. So where did that thought came from? Someone put it there.Someone who knows the exact number of birds, trees, stones, flowers. Someone who, in that fraction of second, took charge of you. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
1380:returning to the Brandt home but I agreed to give a hand. We arrived after lunch and found Lise at work loading a wheelbarrow with the smaller stones from the huge pile beside the shed. The flower bed itself was in the middle of the yard, positioned in a sunny area between deep pools of shade that lay beneath a couple of tall hackberry trees. ~ William Kent Krueger, #NFDB
1381:A HEART OF LAPIS
The most beautiful stones adorn my neck
Like an Ancient Egyptian collar.
Two glistening balls of onyx sit on top
Followed by a double stretch of coral.
At the center is a lapis heart,
Deeper in color than the Red Sea waters
And I am so grateful for this heavenly gift
This precious necklace is
My daughter. ~ Suzy Kassem,#NFDB
1382:I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1383:It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:— Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way,— "From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1384:Never did a tree fall
That did I not feel a pang
For rightly said when they are non man will be gone..
For The very air is replenished by them trees
When they are gone the air will thicken and we all will die
Will become rubbles our forts and tower..
Only weeds and stones to cover
The unsightly mounds we leave..
-Lonesome Gods ~ Louis L Amour,#NFDB
1385:Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained. ~ Kim Edwards, #NFDB
1386:His dwelling was so solitary and vault-like, — an old, retired part of an ancient endowment for students, once a brave edifice, planted in an open place, but now the obsolete whim of forgotten architects; smoke-age-and-weather-darkened, squeezed on every side by the overgrowing of the great city, and choked, like an old well, with stones and bricks; ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1387:It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night -- when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep -- that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1388:It is terrible to lose a loved one... Such sadness doesn't just bruise, then fade away. It devastates. The only way back is to rebuild, stone by stone. And sometimes one hasn't the energy, or the inclination, and one sits among the ruins and waits for something to change. But nothing changes unless we stand up again, and keep picking up the stones. ~ Kimberley Freeman, #NFDB
1389:Scott, deaf and enchanted in the gallery, and the whole row of pretty heads at his side saw the concerted rush on Lymond: his assailants downed him without malice and eighteen stones of Molly planted themselves on his chest. “A throw!” said Molly, and Lymond, half buried, gave a choked whoop of laughter and raised a defeated hand in signal to Tammas. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1390:The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
1391:The weather appeared to have somewhat cleared up; the rain no longer fell, a fresh wind swept the streets, and the moon, now and then surrounded by dark clouds, now and then shining in full brilliancy, shed its rays, smooth and cold as blades of steel, upon the thousand pools of water lying in the hollows of the paving-stones. ("The Child Stealer") ~ Erckmann Chatrian, #NFDB
1392:What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
1393:Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1394:Surely there was some divine trick to make the hours go faster. To let them slip past unseen, to sleep for years, so that when I woke again the world would be new. I closed my eyes. Through the window I heard the bees singing in the garden. My lion’s tail beat against the stones. An eternity later, when I opened my eyes, the shadows had not even moved. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
1395:Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to rot by white men, many, many hundreds of buffalo. ... Our hearts were like stones. And yet nobody believed, even then, that the white man could kill all the buffalo. Since the beginning of things there had always been so many! ~ Pretty Shield, #NFDB
1396:Pa Larkspur?"
She smiled. "Don't be so chauvinistic. He's the best cook in the county. His baskets bring in more money than any others at the picnic auctions."
"Jesus. Baskets? Picnic? Just how country is the Nest?"
"Very." His horrified expression made her laugh. "Clay, you live in a tree. I don't think you should throw stones. ~ Nalini Singh,#NFDB
1397:Lily studied the rock garden. On a long, low hill that sloped to the stream, someone had set stones into the side and planted wildflowers in the pockets of dirt above them. They made her think of opera boxes filled with ladies in colorful gowns. Tyler's mother must have loved cool tones. Lily admired the blues, purples and pinks of the different flowers... ~ Debra Holland, #NFDB
1398:See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored. ~ Ruby Dee, #NFDB
1399:You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. You're afraid of what may not come. You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1400:But this hunger must be recognized by our religious leaders. Current evangelicalism has (to change the figure) laid the altar and divided the sacrifice into parts, but now seems satisfied to count the stones and rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire upon the top of lofty Carmel. But God be thanked that there are a few who care. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1401:Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one. ~ Juan Donoso Cortes, #NFDB
1402:Listen.
When the wind blows
all your candles out, when the stars
turn to plumes of smoke,
when your mother makes you watch
as the matches burn out in her eyes,
Let me hold your hand, your skin,
the stones you've swallowed in your sleep.
Let me
slip your soul out of your skin
so you can sleep in my palms
for tonight. ~ Shinji Moon,#NFDB
1403:The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1404:The spectacular incident of the stones serves as a kind of red herring in this respect. Many researchers have adopted the erroneous belief that where there has been one incident, there must be others. To offer another analogy, this is like dispatching a crew of meteor watchers to Crater National Park because a huge asteroid struck there two million years ago. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1405:Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart! ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1406:Out of three or four in a room
One is always standing at the window
Hair dark above his thoughts
Behind him the words
And in front of him the words, wandering without luggage
Hearts without provision, prophecies without water,
And big stones put there
And stayed, closed, like letters,
With no adresses; and no one to receive them. ~ Yehuda Amichai,#NFDB
1407:There were some amazing items for sale: stones on which the virtuous could stumble, mirrors that increased one's own sense of importance and spectacles that diminished other people's importance. Hanging on the wall were a few other prize objects: a dagger with a curved blade for stabbing people in the back and tape recorders that recorded only gossip and lies. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1408:So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
1409:I felt that in me fear could not put down roots, and even the lava, the fiery stream of melting matter that I imagined inside the earthly globe, and the fear it provoked in me, settled in my mind in orderly sentences, in harmonious images, became a pavement of black stones like the streets of Naples, a pavement where I was always and no matter what the center. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
1410:O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the very stones of the wall; and say what thou wilt, either by setting before them alluring promises or dreadful threatenings, yet people are hardened against both, none relenting for what they have done, or concerned about it. ~ Thomas Boston, #NFDB
1411:I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. ~ Lauren Conrad, #NFDB
1412:Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1413:Ben and I walked by the Forum, which, with the green grass still growing among the stones, seems to be a double ruin: a ruin of antiquity and a monument to the tender sentiments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers, for we see not only the ghosts of Romans here but the shades of ladies with parasols and men with beards and little children rolling hoops. ~ John Cheever, #NFDB
1414:He was looking up at the stars, but not, I think, because they were so close they seemed suspended between earth and space. He was still, not blinking, because his eyes were filling up like that dammed pool and he was trying to hold back his tears. But the water always finds a way through, even when you pile those stones high and deep—eventually it finds a way. ~ Vikki Wakefield, #NFDB
1415:Marcus always nodded patiently when his father said things like this. Sonny was forever talking about slavery, the prison labor complex, the System, segregation, the Man. His father had a deep-seated hatred for white people. A hatred like a bag filled with stones, one stone for every year racial injustice continued to be the norm in America. He still carried the bag. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
1416:She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn. Not more than a little pile of stones, really. I didn’t want to draw attention to her resting place, but I couldn’t leave her without remembrance. She’ll sleep peacefully there, no one to disturb her, no sounds but birdsong and the rumble of passing trains. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
1417:The rest of the house had a casual California boho-beach vibe, with its distressed wood floors, ivory furniture, and gauzy curtains, but the bedroom was very Zen. Decorated in a cool palette of sage greens and charcoal grays, with a floor-to-ceiling window along one wall that looked over a tiny tranquility garden of stones and succulents, it was my little oasis. ~ J T Geissinger, #NFDB
1418:I'd owned enough New Age tchotchkes in my lifetime to know that within a few days of purchase they just seemed like more crap. But as you were shopping, sifting through the stones and their meanings, there was hope that this was a turning point. It was the velocity of buying something that was the high, the potentiality of it. I could capitalist-believe in magic. ~ Melissa Broder, #NFDB
1419:They had camped on a sandbar and built a fire. Bruce cut the meat into strips, but as he laid it on hot stones to cook, he “heard a loud screaming growl.” He grabbed his M16 and turned just in time to see an animal charging them; he had the weapon on full-auto and sprayed it with “at least twenty rounds”; it dropped five feet from him: a huge, seven-foot jaguar. ~ Douglas Preston, #NFDB
1420:What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? ~ John Milton,#NFDB
1421:And where did the stones come from anyway, when they stoned people? Did people collect them on the way to the scene? About how many stones did each thrower figure that he needed? Did they examine each one they picked up, discarding and retaining them based on some criterion? Did women get to throw too, or did they just simper on the periphery, as depicted by Raphael? ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
1422:If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that? ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
1423:Prophet may you be!
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
when time is old and hath forgot itself,
when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
and blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
and mighty states characterless are grated
to dusty nothing, yet let memory,
from false to false, among false maids in love,
upbraid my falsehood! ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1424:Demeter's Grove was a "new age" kind of store, as they were calling them these days, and Autumn sold everything from incense and candles to especially elemental stones to clothing to books. She was used to inviting all kinds of strangers and friends into her kitchen; demonstrations- cooking, baking, tincture or poultice-making- were another dimension of her business. ~ Amy S Foster, #NFDB
1425:Alfred Delbern put forward the idea that there was no such thing as the death of sound; that it never died but diminished in amplitude. He had a friend who believed, for example, that Stonehenge was a repository of dormant sound, and that if you invented the right device you could uncover lost music. What would the music in the stones of a Gothic cathedral sound like? ~ James Runcie, #NFDB
1426:This, she wanted to say. This moment no one sees. That tells it all.
"Listen," he said. "There is no story until we're dead, and then our children tell it. We are just living. Your mother was living. Stop looking for what's not there. Nothing happened—life happened. Reality is not a story."
"So only the people with stories to tell are those on the stones? ~ Sarah Blake,#NFDB
1427:When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1428:It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear. You must be following others’ ideas, you must be doing things in a “right” way, you must be doing things as they should be done. These are the foundation stones of boredom. The whole of humanity is bored ~ Osho, #NFDB
1429:She shot into the darkness, letting her ears guide her. She followed the crunch of his feet on stones and small twigs, coming faster, louder, as his walk became a jog, then a run. She chased the sounds until all she heard was his heartbeat and then his breath and his voice, right by her ear, telling her, in tones as warm as fire, exactly the words she wanted to hear. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
1430:Today there is a place called Egypt, but the Egyptian people are not masters there; long since they have been broken by conquest, and merged in language and marriage with their Arab conquerors; their cities know only the authority of Moslems and Englishmen, and the feet of weary pilgrims who travel thousands of miles to find that the Pyramids are merely heaps of stones. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1431:Here, how did you get out of the castle?" said Granny.
"The esteemed Nanny Ogg assisted me," said the king. "I reasoned, if I am anchored to the stones of Lancre, then I can also go where the stones go. I am afraid I indulged in a little trickery to arrange matters. Currently I am haunting her apron."
"Not the first, either," said Granny, automatically. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
1432:Broadway
I shall never forget you, Broadway
Your golden and calling lights.
I’ll remember you long,
Tall-walled river of rush and play.
Hearts that know you hate you
And lips that have given you laughter
Have gone to their ashes of life and its roses,
Cursing the dreams that were lost
In the dust of your harsh and trampled stones.
~ Carl Sandburg,#NFDB
1433:I shall grind your bones to powder,” he hollered, transfixing the three Gentlemen Bastards with his gleaming eyes. “And with that dust I’ll make cement for paving stones, and for a hundred years to come you’ll have no rest beneath the crush of strange wheels and the tramp of strange boots! Drunkards will make their unclean water upon you, and I shall laugh to think of it, ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
1434:Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose. ~ Michael Hutchence, #NFDB
1435:There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular. ~ Pete Hamill, #NFDB
1436:At the outdoor tables, the women turn their faces to the midmorning sunlight. They forget about exposure and skin cancer and just bask in the warmth, consulting their lists and staring at windows, a balcony still dripping with pink geraniums, shiny paving stones, and people going about their daily lives. They feel they are walk-ons in a play and, of course, they are, the ~ Frances Mayes, #NFDB
1437:Fragment
What is poetry? Is it a mosaic
Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought
Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught
By patient labor any hue to take
And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make
Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,
Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught
With storied meaning for religion's sake.
~ Amy Lowell,#NFDB
1438:They made her think of her grandmere, who had lost her husband and two of her sons in the war. She had cried every day for a year, walking the same stretch of road from her home to the train station, waiting for them to come home. Her tears fell as black stones to the ground, and to this day those stones lodged in car tires and let all the air out slowly in a wail. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
1439:When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us! ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
1440:You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
1441:The LORD said to Moses, 2“See, I have called by name x Bezalel the son of Uri, son of y Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3and I have z filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, 4to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, 5in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1442:There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
1443:Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me. ~ Ann Hood, #NFDB
1444:So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor. ~ Caitlin Thomas, #NFDB
1445:Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;
Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
For that they will not intercept my tale:
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;
And, were they but attired in grave weeds,
Rome could afford no tribune like to these. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1446:It helps nothing to cry and complain, to pluck our hair. There’s no difference between getting mad at our fate and getting mad at rocks and stones. The ears of Fate are completely deaf; anyway, it doesn’t matter whether she hears our voices or not; when the moment comes, she only speaks of the things she has already designed and rains the orders she has already planned. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1447:The precious stones shall all unite, the scent of time shall fill the night, once time links the fraternity, one man lives for eternity.
Under the sign of the twelvefold star, all sickness and ill will flee afar.
The philosopher's stone shall eternally bind.
New strength will arise in the young at that hour,
Making one man immortal, for he holds the power. ~ Kerstin Gier,#NFDB
1448:to a historian specializing in the non-European world there is something puzzling about the excitement with which European historians hail the arrival of cities, trade, regular taxation, standing armies, legal codes, bureaucracies, absolutist kings and other commonplace appurtenances of civilized societies, as if they were unique and self evident stepping stones to modernity: ~ Tonio Andrade, #NFDB
1449:When I was seven years old, my family moved to North Carolina. When he was seven years old, Hugh’s family moved to the Congo. We had a collie and a house cat. They had a monkey and two horses named Charlie Brown and Satan. I threw stones at stop signs. Hugh threw stones at crocodiles. The verbs are the same, but he definitely wins the prize when it comes to nouns and objects. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1450:But that was never the heart of Sweet Mercy. The shipheart wasn’t the foundation of the convent. It was always the faith. Always the notion that all men and women are our brothers and our sisters. And that faith doesn’t end with borders. It doesn’t care about heresies used to divide us, or whether you speak your prayers to a white star, or to the fields and forests and stones. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1451:I think a band - even a band that's been around as long as the Rolling Stones - I think that's still the formula. You know you're gonna get those songs, and you don't mind sitting through the ones that you maybe don't know very well because you know they're not gonna let you down - they're not gonna mess with you. And I kind of feel the same way about the way I structure my shows. ~ DJ Shadow, #NFDB
1452:The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace. ~ Joseph Hall, #NFDB
1453:The poor soul sat singing by a sycamore tree. Sing all a green willow:
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow:
The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; Sing willow, willow, willow; Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones; Lay by these: Sing willow, willow, willow;
Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1454:There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid. ~ W S Merwin, #NFDB
1455:There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1456:..did i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a hill or a ridge and who told me that and who decided stones had no rights for stones can waste away from being denied from being abused and who decided who is the ploughed and who ploughs and why did i not get up and why not go away and what would have happened if i had resisted.. ~ Marlene van Niekerk, #NFDB
1457:For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to reap; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather your stones together. ~ Whitney Dineen, #NFDB
1458:I look at those parchments, which are deeds saying that Uhtred, son of Uhtred, is the lawful and sole owner of the lands that are carefully marked by stones and by dykes, by oaks and by ash, by marsh and by sea, and I dream of those lands, wavebeaten and wild beneath the winddriven sky. I dream, and know that one day I will take back the land from those who stole it from me. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
1459:My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies. ~ Cassandra Peterson, #NFDB
1460:Before her the stars were falling one by one and being snuffed out among the stones of the desert, and each time Janine opened a little more to the night. Breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the dead weight of others, the craziness or stuffiness of life, the long anguish of living and dying. After so many years of mad, aimless fleeing from fear, she had come to a stop at last. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1461:Ideal to pre-serve fossils are sedimentary rocks: limestones, sandstones, silt-stones, and shales. Compared with volcanic and metamorphic
rocks, these are formed by more gentle processes, including the action of rivers, lakes, and seas. Not only are animals likely to live in such environments, but the sedimentary processes make these rocks more likely places to preserve fossils. ~ Neil Shubin,#NFDB
1462:They shoved off and picked up the paddles. They could see their breath. In the gray dawn the river smoked with tendrils of mist. No wind, the water glass-smooth. No sound but the current frilling the stones of the bank. No bird chatter, no crickets. The river and the burns on either side were very still, the only movement there the tatters of flame worrying the biggest fallen logs. ~ Peter Heller, #NFDB
1463:Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1464:The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst ~ John Ashbery, #NFDB
1465:Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has been shown to be a significant contributing factor in nearly every known illness and aging condition, including heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, cancers, cataracts, eczema, psoriasis, and even wrinkles. ~ David Wolfe, #NFDB
1466:Have you ever considered the idea that some of our life experiences should be looked upon as stepping stones, needed in order to cross the stream at large, but not meant to be lingered on forever?"
"I suppose I've never considered my life experiences in quite that light."
"Then I recommend you begin considering them that way, which will open you up even further to the unexpected. ~ Jen Turano,#NFDB
1467:If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead? ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
1468:There's a time when things go out of tune. It's not all the time. It's not even a lot of the time. But it is some of the time. And then you have to deal with it all. Everything comes out wrong. You dream about goats and monkeys. People start to look at things wrong. Maybe you think the world looks squashed and flat. Maybe you get stones in the bulgar and you burn the smoked wheat. ~ Diana Abu Jaber, #NFDB
1469:Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. ~ Robert A Burton, #NFDB
1470:Logen pulled the knife out of his boot and rammed the blade into the side of the giant’s neck. He looked surprised, for just a moment, then blood dribbled from his mouth and down his chin. He let go of Logen’s shirt, stumbled back, spun slowly round, bounced off one of the stones and crashed on his face. Seemed that Logen’s father had been right. You can never have too many knives. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1471:We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
1472:As the company moved on, most of the mud farmers—as Podo called them, though not without pity—ignored them, but some stood up from the fields where they were unearthing stones in the way of the plow, or stopped hammering a rotten plank to a rotten structure with a rusty nail, or peered out their windows to watch the Igibys as they passed. “Has it always been like this?” Leeli asked. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
1473:sometimes the children from the school down the road see us in the street when we’re getting off the bus and they shout, “Special Needs! Special Needs!” But I don’t take any notice because I don’t listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won’t go to prison. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
1474:Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1475:And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible. ~ Jack Spicer, #NFDB
1476:For us, fear comes where terror comes to others because we are anesthetized to the guns constantly pointed at us. And the terror we have known is something few Westerners ever will. Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
[...] Our sadness can make the stones weep. And the way we love is no exception. ~ Susan Abulhawa,#NFDB
1477:Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
1478:My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances. ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
1479:Star had Comet haltered and out of his corral, his lead rope tied to the top rail of the fence, and she was raking out the manure and small stones with amazing care, so that no square inch of dirt was left ungroomed. She had just led him out and tied him to the rail. She made it look so easy. Was it really so easy? Every time she had been here working, I’d stayed close and watched ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
1480:Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1481:Catalan metalworkers quickly fashioned armored cars that looked like giant boxes on wheels by welding steel plates to the frames of trucks and automobiles. Others fashioned homemade bombs and hand grenades, and thousands pitched in to build street barricades of everything from dead horses to massive rolls of newsprint to paving stones passed hand-to-hand along a chain of people. Office ~ Adam Hochschild, #NFDB
1482:It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that holds you. Most of us have very few convictions, but the ones we do have are important to us. Convictions are the compasses of life - that keep us moving in the right direction. They are the foundation stones that help us to stand firm when everything around us is shaking and changing. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1483:The trees all whisper, leaves gossiping. The stones are heavy thinkers, the sullen silent types. He used to make up stories for everything in nature, giving it all voices, lives. If the moor wind ever sings, you mustn’t listen, not with all of your ears. Use only the edges. Listen the way you’d look out the corners of your eyes. The wind is lonely, love, and always looking for company. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
1484:I have found that sometimes, moments get stuck in your body. They are there, lodged under your skin like hard seed-stones of wonder or sadness or fear, everything else growing up around them. And if you turn a certain way, if you fall, one of them could get free. It might dissolve in your blood, or it might spring up a whole tree. Sometimes, once one of them gets out, they all start to go. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
1485:And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1486:Dad had a thing about guns. Never liked them. Said guns might not kill people, but they sure made it easier. Now he didn't think they were dangerous so much as he thought they were ridiculously lame.
"How effective do you think our guns are going to be against a technology thousands, if not millions, of years ahead of ours? It's like using a club and stones against a tactical missile. ~ Rick Yancey,#NFDB
1487:Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards. ~ Edward Gorey, #NFDB
1488:5:1 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. 2 He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1489:But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonged under someone's thumb, and if you wanted mother's little helper from your dear doctor you better have the silver, take it or leave it, and don't come crying for sympathy, that was just for the devil. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1490:How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones? The soul is tired in a moment, and in fear of losing the little she does understand, she retreats to the permanent lines which habit or chance have dictated, and suffers there. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1491:Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised.
Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched. ~ N D Wilson,#NFDB
1492:The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127) ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1493:The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green. ~ A S Byatt, #NFDB
1494:Anyway, we animals always settle our own quarrels without dragging Mr. Bean into it. Now if Peter were here, he could take that boy in hand without any fuss. A bear is about the only animal that his stones wouldn’t hurt. But as you know, Peter is spending some weeks with relatives in Herkimer County. “Now of course we can keep out of trouble by staying away from the side of the farm by the ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
1495:At some point after Asha went to college, the distance between her and Krishnan grew. By the time their daughter left for India, they were too far apart. It was as if they stood on opposite sides of a lake, neither of them having the ability to cross the distance between. The angry words they hurled fell like stones to the bottom of the water, leaving ripples of sadness on the surface. ~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda, #NFDB
1496:Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1497:He gestured at the brief and brutal lay of stones between us. “Look at that. Why would I ever want to win a game such as this?” I looked down at the board. “The point isn’t to win?” I asked. “The point,” Bredon said grandly, “is to play a beautiful game.” He lifted his hands and shrugged, his face breaking into a beatific smile. “Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game? ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1498:Mt4.1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Mt4.2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered. Mt4.3 And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. Mt4.4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1499:There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength. ~ Kwon Yuri, #NFDB
1500:This is how history happens in America—desperate people crowded into a musty basement, ready to give themselves over to a lawyer who’s supposed to be their savior. In Amsterdam, when they heard the police were coming they barred the doors and took to the rooftops. They stockpiled bricks and stones. They prepared to fight. Here they talk and wring their hands, hoping pieces of paper will save them. ~ Cari Luna, #NFDB
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60 Integral Yoga
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38 Christianity
21 Mysticism
12 Yoga
12 Psychology
8 Mythology
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2 Hinduism
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1 Integral Theory
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35 H P Lovecraft
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22 Sri Aurobindo
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14 Saint Augustine of Hippo
13 Percy Bysshe Shelley
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2 Joseph Campbell
2 H. P. Lovecraft
2 Friedrich Schiller
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Al-Ghazali
2 Aldous Huxley
35 Lovecraft - Poems
23 Wordsworth - Poems
22 The Golden Bough
15 Yeats - Poems
14 The Bible
13 Shelley - Poems
13 City of God
11 Of The Nature Of Things
9 Whitman - Poems
9 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
8 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Metamorphoses
6 Browning - Poems
5 Mysterium Coniunctionis
5 Liber ABA
5 Emerson - Poems
5 Agenda Vol 10
4 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
4 Tagore - Poems
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
4 Keats - Poems
4 Collected Poems
4 Anonymous - Poems
4 Aion
4 Agenda Vol 08
4 Agenda Vol 06
3 Words Of Long Ago
3 Talks
3 Savitri
3 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
3 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
3 Maps of Meaning
3 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 Vishnu Purana
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Synthesis Of Yoga
2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
2 The Perennial Philosophy
2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Song of Myself
2 Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice
2 Schiller - Poems
2 Record of Yoga
2 Questions And Answers 1954
2 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
2 Prayers And Meditations
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 Magick Without Tears
2 Li Bai - Poems
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Goethe - Poems
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
2 Borges - Poems
2 Agenda Vol 04
2 Agenda Vol 01
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
At the foot of thy stones, O Sea!
And I would that I could utter
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
being hurt by the stones on the way.
With my love and blessings that her aspiration may be
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When we say one is conscious, we usually mean that one is conscious with the mental consciousness, with the rational intelligence, with the light of the brain. But this need not be always so. For one can be conscious with other forms of consciousness or in other planes of consciousness. In the average or normal man the consciousness is linked to or identified with the brain function, the rational intelligence and so we conclude that without this wakeful brain activity there can be no consciousness. But the fact is otherwise. The experiences of the mystic prove the point. The mystic is conscious on a level which we describe as higher than the mind and reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turiya.)And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi that can be sushupti or turiyaorpartially consciousin swapna, for example, the external behaviour may be like that of a child or a lunatic or even a goblin. One can also remain normally conscious and still be in the superconscience. Not only so, the mystic the Yogican be conscious on infraconscious levels also; that is to say, he can enter into and identify with the consciousness involved in life and even in Matter; he can feel and realise his oneness with the animal world, the plant world and finally the world of dead earth, of "stocks and stones" too. For all these strands of existence have each its own type of consciousness and all different from the mode of mind which is normally known as consciousness. When St. Francis addresses himself to the brother Sun or the sister Moon, or when the Upanishad speaks of the tree silhouetted against the sky, as if stilled in trance, we feel there is something of this fusion and identification of consciousness with an infra-conscient existence.
I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And there are hundreds and hundreds of little experiences like that, like so many little stones marking the way. Then you see that the two things are ALWAYS together: the destructive and the constructive. You cant see one without seeing the other. A time comes when the effort is to conquer the negative parts of creation and death (as at the end of Savitri), and when you have conquered that, then youre above. And then if you look at all these things, even those which seem the most opposed to the Divine, even acts of cruelty done for the pleasure of cruelty, you see the Presence the Presence that annuls their effects. And its absolutely marvelous.
I had a startling experience one day when X was doing his pujas to encircle the titans. He was in difficulty and I was about to intervene to help him when I was abruptly stopped. I was faced by a massive blackness (blacker than the blackest physical thing) and suddenly, right at its center, I saw the Divine Love shining with such a splendor I had never seen it so splendid.
0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Even stones are beautiful; they are always beautiful in one way or another. When life appeared, there were some forms that were a little difficult, but not to that extent, not like certain human mental creations. Of course, there may have been some animal species which were rather but they were more monstrous than actually ugly. And most probably, it only seems like that to our consciousness. But the mind And its the same for all these ideas of sin, of wrong, of all thatits a falsehood. But it was man who invented falsehood, wasnt it? The mind invented falsehood: to deceive! to deceive! And its a curious fact that animals domesticated by man have also learned to lie!
The curve
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I mean there is nothing sensational, interesting to recount. Its a minuscule labor, minute to minute, like oh, its not even like cutting a path through a virgin forest, because a virgin forest is pleasant to look at! But this. Its almost like laying stones together to build a road. Every day and all the time, night and day and at any moment whatsoever, there are tiny, tiny things, tiny things, tinyits not interesting.
There are successive curves, each second of which would have to be noted down; and in the course of one of these curves, something is suddenly found. For example, at the beginning of The Yoga of Self-Perfection, Sri Aurobindo reviews other yogas, beginning with Hatha Yoga. I had just translated this when I remembered Sri Aurobindo saying that Hatha Yoga was very effective but that it amounted to spending your whole life training your body, which is an enormous time and effort spent on something not essentially very interesting. Then I looked at it and said to myself, But after all, (I was looking at life as it is, as people ordinarily live it) one spends at least 90% of ones life merely to PRESERVE ones body, to keep it going! All this attention and concentration on an instrument which is put to hardly any use. Anyway, I was looking at it with that attitude, when suddenly all the cells of my body responded, in such a spontaneous and WARM way. How to say it? Something so so moving. They told me, But its the Lord who is looking after Himself in us! Each one was saying: But its the Lord who is looking after Himself in us!
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, listen (this is not meant to be published or told), I dont know if Ive told you already. I was nine or ten years old, I was running with some friends in the forest of Fontainebleau (Ive told this story somewhere). The forest is rather dense, so you cant see very far ahead. We were running, and speeding along as I was, I didnt see I was coming to the edge overhanging the road. The place where we were was about ten feet above the road (more than a story high), and the road was paved with stonesfreshly paved. And we were running. I was racing ahead, the others were behind. Well, Id built up such momentum that I couldnt stopwhoosh! I went sailing into the air. I was ten, eleven at the most, mind you, with no notion of the miraculous or the marvelous, nothing, nothing I was just flung into the air. And I felt something supporting me, holding me up, and I was literally SET DOWN on the ground, on the stones. I got up (I found it perfectly natural, you understand!): not a scratch, not a speck of dust, nothing, absolutely intact. I fell down very, very slowly. Then everyone rushed up to see. Oh, its nothing! I said, I am all right. And I left it at that. But the impression lingered. That feeling of something carrying me (gesture of a slow fall, like a leaf falling in stages with slight pauses): I fell down that slow. And the material proof was there, it was no illusion since I was unscathed the road was paved with stones (you know the flint stones of France?): not a scratch, nothing. Not a speck of dust.
The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, I dont feel any haste I love stones, flowers, plants, animals so much, theyre all so wonderful! It begins to be less pleasant beyond the most unpleasant is human perversionperversion of cruelty, of wickedness, of hardness. You have to rise higher to be able to accept it, to be unaffected by it.
But that thing I saw yesterday, that bubbly formation of joie de vivre, I saw clearly that its one of the greatest obstaclesone of the greatest obstacles: a vital joy that knows only itself, that knows nothing other than its own vital joy and is PERFECTLY content. I saw it was a great obstacle, because it already contained a sort of reflection of the True Thing. And then, you can only laugh, but there are stern people who say, Youll see when you get sick, youll see when you get old. (All that came because there was a whole work, which represents a whole great drama on the earths scale, there was this and that and that.) What for? Why be stern? Let them be happy, they represent why, its like foam on fresh beer!
0 1965-02-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the vision, the perception (it was like a perception, you know) wasnt exactly from very far because it had the accuracy of a microscope, but all was an object of observation. At that moment, all the fires were starting, then hundreds of brickbats (not stones: brickbats) were bombarding all the windows and doors (all our windows, all the doors have been smashed in), which means infernal din: a pack of several hundred people, all drunk, bellowing, and shouts all over the place. So that bombardment of stones and those flames leaping up to the sky the whole sky was redit was all seen I was simply seated at my table; when the attack started, I was having my dinner, and a little before it started, that experience came, that consciousness: I wasnt this body anymore, I was the earth the physical truth-consciousness of the earth, to be exactwith a PEACE, a STILLNESS unknown to the physical. And it all seemed like an absolute Falsehood, without any element of truth behind it. Yet at the same time, I had a microscopic perception (but absolutely precise and exact) of all the points of falsehood IN THE ASHRAMS ATMOSPHERE that established the contact.
So if that consciousness that was there had been collective, if it had been possible to receive it collectively, NOTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN TOUCHED: the stones would have been thrown, but wouldnt have hit anyone. Thats how it would have been. For instance, a stone (a brickbat) was flung and hit my window; it fell on the roof there (even causing a water leak that had to be plugged), and I saw that very minute, I saw in the consciousness of the people present the exact vibration of Falsehood that had allowed the stone to hit there. And AT THE SAME TIME, simultaneously (it cant be said, but it was simultaneous), everywhere, all over the town and especially over the Ashram here, I saw all the points, the exact vibration of Falsehood in everyone or everything that made the contact possible.
The experience began a little after 7, 7:10, and it lasted till 1 in the morning.
0 1965-02-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Since then, several people have told me their experience, and its like a proof. For instance, on the night of the 11th, C. went out (he was safe indoors), he wanted to telephone the police and had to go across the yard. (It was literally a shower of brickbats; they had demolished the wall of the volleyball ground and were using the stones: they brought them in rickshaws to bombard us with them.) But C. himself told me that when he went out, everyone shouted to him, Come back in, come back in! You are mad! But he went across ( stones were raining everywhere): not one hit him. And he felt it was impossible for them to hit him; that my protection was around him and the stones couldnt hit him. And indeed, they didnt hit himthey just fell away.
Ive had several instances like that.
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo picked up those letters (at that moment I knew exactly what they meant, but its secondary), then he took me by the hand (that is, his right hand took my left hand: I was on his right), and we started walking on the road. And while we were walking on the road, after a time (there were many details and things I am not telling because they are incidental, they had their meaning at the time but they dont matter), while we were walking on the road, he suddenly leaned over towards me and showed me that I was walking on flint. (You know, when the road is made of chips of stones and slightly cambered to make water flow away? On the side some earth has been washed away and sometimes the stones are bared.) And I was walking on those stonesno, he was walking on them and he showed them to me, so I had him walk in the middle of the road and I started walking on the stones so he wouldnt walk on them (but I didnt feel the stones at all). And then I noticed (I looked at him at that moment), I noticed Sri Aurobindos head a glorified head, truly a supramental head, a marvel! And his whole body, EVERY PART OF HIS BODY was someone in whom he was manifesting for a particular work or reason, or a particular action in relation to me; and as for me, I wasnt a person, I was only a Force (I noticed that I didnt have a body). And I saw all those who were participating (not their physical appearance, but I knew who they were): for this one, such and such a thing; for that one, such and such a thing; the hand, such and such a thing; the arm, such and such a thing and so on. And I saw his feet: they were my feet with tabis on; they were my feet, my feet with tabis on. And it was my feet with tabis on that didnt want to let him walk on the stones, on the side of the road, and that was why he left it.
It was wonderfully clear and meaningful! And I saw, I knew exactly someones place in the Work; and in that Work, in that relationship with me, he was supported, directed by Sri Aurobindo. The whole thing in detail.
It was a revelation with an absolutely wonderful exactness. And that concern he had. First, the feeling that I WAS his feet (but his white feet with tabis on, as mine are) and that he didnt want me to walk on the edge, on the rugged stones of the road, and thats why he left
It has left me with an absolutely unforgettable impression because it was a revelation of the play of forcesof what things TRULY are in spite of their appearances, which are deceptive.
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What struck me the most is sight. Hearing for a very, very long timeyears Ive had the feeling that when people dont think very clearly, I cant hear. But thats not quite the point: its when their consciousness isnt ALIVE in what theyre sayingits not so much a question of thought, its their consciousness that isnt ALIVE in what theyre saying; its a mental machine; then I dont understand anything at allnothing. When their consciousness is alive, it reaches me. And I have noticed, for instance, that people whom I dont hear think its because I am deaf in the ordinary way, so they start shoutingwhich is even worse! Then its as if they were throwing stones in my face.1
There must be an action on the organs.
0 1967-05-10, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
By crosschecking; thats in fact what Pavitra explains to you. They found stones with inscriptions in Egyptian, in Greek and in Coptic: the same thing said in those three languages. So they pieced it together.
Now, with the gramophone and all that, the sounds will be remembered, but at that time they werent noted.
0 1967-05-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A time may come when well have to tell Sri Aurobindos vision and how the world has evolved since he spoke about it (that would be very interesting). For that wed have to find again everything he said on the different subjects. From the religious point of view, I have been thinking about it for a long time. Those are the two things that cant be touched without instantly arousing human passions, and there, peoples vision is quite narrow, limited, so that they no longer understand anything. Politics and religion, it would be better to wait a little. In ten years, perhaps. It could be, things are going fast. In ten years, maybe well be able to see and say a little something. In any case, its better to put this letter aside. (Laughing) Its not the time to fling stones at them!
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0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, fires lighting up here, there, at the corner over there, people shouting, stones flying. That day I had an unforgettable experience. The minute the actual news of the attack came, the consciousness was as if drawn into the universal physical consciousness, like that (spreading out gesture). And it was from there, from the universal physical consciousness, that everything was seen. Thats how I was able to see: I was able to see the reaction IN EACH ONE. It was really interesting, oh, really interesting!
Anything that started vibrating (I am not even talking about fearthose who have fear, that goes without saying, it means catastrophenot even fear: excitement), anything that started vibrating in that way attractedATTRACTEDthings (I saw the whole scene at once), attracted danger.
0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my vision, his two feet were me. But in my vision, his feet had white tabis on, to make me clearly understand that it was me. And in my vision, he walked on the edge of a path strewn with bare flint stones, so it was very hard and sharp-edged, and he said, No, this is not the way it should be, lets walk higher up on the road where its smoother, and he came back to the middle of the road. So if its like that, if its the same symbol carrying on, it would mean something concerning mepossibly.
The shoes are a covering. A covering Pinkish cream, did you say?
0 1968-10-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats all that image came to me: a condensation of you. Somewhat like, you know, that story (on quite a lower level) of the stones that consensed in the courtyard of the Guest-House, when stones were thrown into the Guest-House.1 But instead of a lower magic, it would be a higher magic, if I may say so: a luminous condensation of Truth.
(Mother remains in contemplation till the end, not saying anything)
A cook who had been dismissed went to a fakir (or Muslim Tantric) to get revenge. For several weeks in a row, at certain times of the day stones rained in the courtyard of the Guest-House: a disciple even had his arm injured. It was a condensation of vital forces. Amrita picked up some of those stones and preserved them to study them scientifically, but they were real stones, whose only peculiarity was that they were covered with moss all over. That was in 1921. Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to Dilip on the subject (on February 2, 1943).
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0 1969-04-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was by the Rolling stones.
There were fears of cancer.
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Franois B.:) Mother, a few groups have pushed much farther on. This one [the Rolling stones] is the most vital of all the groups. But there are others, more open, less rough. They are really ready to recognize you, but they dont know.
Its clearly a complete rejection of all mental rules, and thats the first step needed to go beyond. There are two or three minutes when suddenlyhop! (gesture of piercing through) you feel it contacts something above.
0 1969-07-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theyre on their way back. But the Russians sent a robot in a machine that went round the moon, landed on it and picked up stonesand it was a robot! They said, Well never risk a human lifea robot is good enough.3
But the children at the School here were in an extraordinary state of excitement. So I was asked to say something to them. I said, Id better not say anything, because I would say its big children having fun! (Mother laughs) It would have thrown cold water on them!
0 1969-07-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But on a much lower level, lasting materializations have been madelike those stones that were thrown in the Guest House, for instance.4
Yes.
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That of the stones wasthose stones that were thrown.5
(silence)
0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem reads out the Talk of August 19 which first deals with the power of stones. Mother comments:)
Some stones can contain a force of protection. Thats remarkable, mon petit! You can accumulate in a stone (amethysts especially) a force of protection,. and the protection ACTUALLY protects the person wearing the stone. Thats very interesting, I experienced it. I knew someone whom Id given such a stone (an amethyst) full of a POWER of protection, and while he wore itit was wonderful; then he lost it, and almost met with a catastrophe. Especially amethysts: the power of protection.
(Then in the same Talk, a child asks Mother the difference between what she calls the Divine and what people call God. Mother puts off the question until later.)
0 1970-05-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They [the D.s] stressed a lot the frictions with villagers. They even wrote that villagers had thrown stones at our people in Auroville. Naturally, they were bound to make a mess, while things seem quite smooth on the contrary.
R. [Aurovilles architect] has asked to see me tonight.
02.09 - Two Mystic Poems in Modern French, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Various figures and images depict the nature and relation of the two. The lower is darkness and the night, the higher is light and the day. Sometimes it is the opposite: the lower is the day (ordinary common light), the higher is dark night (because unknown and unfamiliar or because of the very dazzle of its light). The lower is imaged at times as a woodland, a shelter for wild growths and roving animals. The higher is the hunter, with his hounds chasing the creatures of the lower domain. Also the higher is the serene infinite sky, the lower the raging sea below. Otherwise, again, the higher is the vast sea, tranquil or quietly rippling above and the lower is the solid material universe. The higher is the delightful sun, the lower is the muddy slimy earth of the bed of stones and rocks. The consummation, the dnouement is the interlocking between the two and a final coalescence in which the higher penetrates into the lower and the lower is sublimated into the higher and the two form one integral undivided reality.
Poetry, Volume 104, No 5, August 1964.
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It dozes on a little courtyard’s stones
And barks at every unfamiliar light
02.11 - Hymn to Darkness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Douve shall be your name far off among the stones, Douve dark and black, Irreducible low water where effort shall spend itself."
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04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
With rocks, and stones, and trees.1
An animal does not separate itself from Nature, exteriorise it and then seek to fashion it as he wants, try to make it yield things he requires. Man is precisely man because he has just this sense of self and of not-self and his whole life is the conquest of the not-self by the self: this is the whole story of his evolution. In the early stages his sense of agency and selfhood is at its minimum. The rough-hewn flint instruments are symbolic of the first attempts of the brain to set its impress upon crude and brute nature. The history of man's artisanship, which is the history of his civilisation, is also the history of his growing self-consciousness. The consciousness in its attempt to react upon nature separated itself from Nature, and at first stood over against it and then sought to stand over and above it. In this process of extricating itself from the sheath in which it was involved and fused, it came back upon itself, became more and more aware of its freedom and individual identity and agency.
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A godhead quarried from the stones of life.
O loss, if death into its elements
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But must cross on stones of suffering to its goal.
Although designed like a nectar cup of heaven,
09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You can take what you call a precious stone and concentrate a force or forces in it. It retains them. These forces radiate afterwards very slowly, but increasingly, progressively. And if you know how to do it, you can charge it with a quantity of force quite enough to last almost indefinitely so to say. There are stones that serve as intermediaries of union, stones that serve as accumulators of energy and stones that may serve as foretellers of circumstances, they may carry messages. Therefore, as they can serve as accumulators, it means that they carry in themselves the source of the Force itself, otherwise they would not be receptive.
It is a force of this kind that is the origin of the phenomenon of crystallisation. Crystals gather together in matter, it is already a movement of love. stones that crystallise, rock crystals, for example, form wonderful designs, so magnificent in their absolute harmony; that comes because of only one thing the Force of Love.
You do not see the thing, because you have not the inner sensibility. But once you have the direct perception of the forces of love behind things you see that it is everywhere the same. And you can even come to understand what man-made manufactured things tell you.
1.00b - DIVISION B - THE PERSONALITY RAY AND FIRE BY FRICTION, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
In looking at the matter from the standpoint of fire the idea may be grasped a little through the realisation that the latent fire of matter in the atom is brought into brilliance and usefulness by the action of the personality Ray which merges with this fire and stands in the same position to the permanent atom in the microcosm as FOHAT does on the cosmic plane. The fire is there hidden within the sphere (whether the sphere systemic or the sphere atomic) and the personality Ray in the one case, and Fohat in the other, acts as the force which brings latency into activity and potentiality into demonstrated power. This correspondence should be thought out with care and judgment. Just as Fohat has to do with active manifestation or objectivity, so the personality Ray has to do with the third, or activity aspect in the microcosm. The work of the third aspect logoic was the arranging of the matter of the system so that eventually it could be built into form through the power of the second aspect. Thus the correspondence works out. By life upon the physical plane (that life wherein the physical permanent atom has its full demonstration) the matter is arranged and separated that must eventually be built into the Temple of Solomon, the egoic body, through the agency of the egoic life, the second [73] aspect. In the quarry of the personal life are the stones prepared for the great Temple. In existence upon the physical plane and in the objective personal life is that experience gained which demonstrates as faculty in the Ego. What is here suggested would richly repay our closest attention, and open up before us reaches of ideas, which should eventuate in a wiser comprehension, a sounder judgment, and a greater encouragement to action.
III. THE PERSONALITY RAY AND KARMA
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
its turned over all the stones
and its very careful reading
1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Remove the living stones, that stopt their way,
And gushing from their source, augment the sea.
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This Earth our mighty mother is, the stones
In her capacious body, are her bones:
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Their vests, and veil'd, they cast the stones behind:
The stones (a miracle to mortal view,
But long tradition makes it pass for true)
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fools life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:
Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum,
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So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell.
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorancewhich his growth requireswho has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clo the him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.
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We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter. Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay out doors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it. Who does not remember the interest with which when young he looked at shelving rocks, or any approach to a cave? It was the natural yearning of that portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in us. From the cave we have advanced to roofs of palm leaves, of bark and boughs, of linen woven and stretched, of grass and straw, of boards and shingles, of stones and tiles. At last, we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. From the hearth to the field is a great distance. It would be well perhaps if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead. Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary. I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth, while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind. Formerly, when how to get my living honestly, with freedom left for my proper pursuits, was a question which vexed me even more than it does now, for unfortunately I am become somewhat callous, I used to see a large box by the railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night, and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and, having bored a few auger holes in it, to admit the air at least, get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free. This did not appear the worst, nor by any means a despicable alternative. You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this. I am far from jesting. Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. A comfortable house for a rude and hardy race, that lived mostly out of doors, was once made here almost entirely of such materials as Nature furnished ready to their hands. Gookin, who was superintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their bodies at those seasons when the sap is up, and made into great flakes, with pressure of weighty timber, when they are green.... The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.... Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad.... I have often lodged in their wigwams, and found them as warm as the best English houses. He adds, that they were commonly carpeted and lined within with well-wrought embroidered mats, and were furnished with various utensils. The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string. Such a lodge was in the first instance constructed in a day or two at most, and taken down and put up in a few hours; and every family owned one, or its apartment in one.
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Though we are not so degenerate but that we might possibly live in a cave or a wigwam or wear skins today, it certainly is better to accept the advantages, though so dearly bought, which the invention and industry of mankind offer. In such a neighborhood as this, boards and shingles, lime and bricks, are cheaper and more easily obtained than suitable caves, or whole logs, or bark in sufficient quantities, or even well-tempered clay or flat stones. I speak understandingly on this subject, for I have made myself acquainted with it both theoretically and practically. With a little more wit we might use these materials so as to become richer than the richest now are, and make our civilization a blessing. The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
But to make haste to my own experiment.
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At length, in the beginning of May, with the help of some of my acquaintances, rather to improve so good an occasion for neighborliness than from any necessity, I set up the frame of my house. No man was ever more honored in the character of his raisers than I. They are destined, I trust, to assist at the raising of loftier structures one day. I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly impervious to rain; but before boarding I laid the foundation of a chimney at one end, bringing two cartloads of stones up the hill from the pond in my arms. I built the chimney after my hoeing in the fall, before a fire became necessary for warmth, doing my cooking in the mean while out of doors on the ground, early in the morning: which mode I still think is in some respects more convenient and agreeable than the usual one. When it stormed before my bread was baked, I fixed a few boards over the fire, and sat under them to watch my loaf, and passed some pleasant hours in that way. In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.
It would be worth the while to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, what foundation a door, a window, a cellar, a garret, have in the nature of man, and perchance never raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a mans building his own house that there is in a birds building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men? I never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house. We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer.
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These are all the materials excepting the timber stones and sand, which
I claimed by squatters right. I have also a small wood-shed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house.
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Arcadia, when I was there, I did not see any hammering stone. Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. I love better to see stones in place. The grandeur of Thebes was a vulgar grandeur. More sensible is a rod of stone wall that bounds an honest mans field than a hundred-gated Thebes that has wandered farther from the true end of life. The religion and civilization which are barbaric and hea thenish build splendid temples; but what you might call
Christianity does not. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. I might possibly invent some excuse for them and him, but I have no time for it. As for the religion and love of art of the builders, it is much the same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanity, assisted by the love of garlic and bread and butter. Mr.
1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
with cognition. This is due to the fact that we are inclined to set cognition aside as a faculty by itself-one that stands in no relation to what otherwise occurs in the soul. In so thinking we do not bear in mind that it is the soul which exercises the faculty of cognition; and feelings are for the soul what food is for the body. If we give the body stones in place of bread, its activity will cease. It is the same with the soul. Veneration, homage, devotion are like nutriment making it healthy and strong, especially strong for the activity of cognition. Disrespect, antipathy, underestimation of what deserves recognition, all exert a paralyzing and withering effect on this faculty of cognition. For the spiritually experienced this fact is visible in the aura. A soul which harbors feelings of reverence and devotion produces a change in its aura. Certain spiritual colorings, as they may be called, yellow-red and brown-red in tone, vanish and are replaced by blue-red tints. Thereby the cognitional faculty is ripened; it receives intelligence of facts in its environment of which it had hitherto no idea. Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic
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1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"Some days passed and the cowherd boys noticed that the snake would not bite. They threw stones at it. Still it showed no anger; it behaved as if it were an earthworm. One day one of the boys came close to it, caught it by the tail, and, whirling it round and round, dashed it again and again on the ground and threw it away. The snake vomited blood and became unconscious. It was stunned. It could not move. So, thinking it dead, the boys went their way.
"Late at night the snake regained consciousness. Slowly and with great difficulty it dragged itself into its hole; its bones were broken and it could scarcely move. Many days passed. The snake became a mere skeleton covered with a skin. Now and then, at night, it would come out in search of food. For fear of the boys it would not leave its hole during the day-time. Since receiving the sacred word from the teacher, it had given up doing harm to others. It maintained its life on dirt, leaves, or the fruit that dropped from the trees.
1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Some build bricks upon stones. Others set pillars on the bare ground. And there are some who go a short distance and, having got their muscles and joints warm, go faster. Whoever can understand, let him understand this allegorical word.
Let us eagerly run our course as men called by our God and King, lest, since our time is short, we be found in the day of our death without fruit and perish of hunger. Let us please the Lord as soldiers please their king; because we are required to give an exact account of our service after the campaign. Let us fear the Lord not less than we fear beasts. For I have seen men who were going to steal and were not afraid of God, but, hearing the barking of dogs, they at once turned back; and what the fear of God could not achieve was done by the fear of animals. Let us love God at least as much as we respect our friends. For I have often seen people who had offended God and were not in the least perturbed about it. And I have seen how those same people provoked their friends in some trifling matter and then employed every artifice, every device, every sacrifice, every apology, both personally and through friends and relatives, not sparing gifts, in order to regain their former love.
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
All this sheds some lightdim, it is true, and merely inferentialon the problem of the perennialness of the Perennial Philosophy. In India the scriptures were regarded, not as revelations made at some given moment of history, but as eternal gospels, existent from everlasting to everlasting, inasmuch as coeval with man, or for that matter with any other kind of corporeal or incorporeal being possessed of reason. A similar point of view is expressed by Aristotle, who regards the fundamental truths of religion as everlasting and indestructible. There have been ascents and falls, periods (literally roads around or cycles) of progress and regress; but the great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized. In the light of what we know about prehistoric man (and what we know amounts to nothing more than a few chipped stones, some paintings, drawings and sculptures) and of what we may legitimately infer from other, better documented fields of knowledge, what are we to think of these traditional doctrines? My own view is that they may be true. We know that born contemplatives in the realm both of analytic and of integral thought have turned up in fair numbers and at frequent intervals during recorded history. There is therefore every reason to suppose that they turned up before history was recorded. That many of these people died young or were unable to exercise their talents is certain. But a few of them must have survived. In this context it is highly significant that, among many contemporary primitives, two thought-patterns are foundan exoteric pattern for the unphilosophic many and an esoteric pattern (often monotheistic, with a belief in a God not merely of power, but of goodness and wisdom) for the initiated few. There is no reason to suppose that circumstances were any harder for prehistoric men than they are for many contemporary savages. But if an esoteric monotheism of the kind that seems to come natural to the born thinker is possible in modern savage societies, the majority of whose members accept the sort of polytheistic philosophy that seems to come natural to men of action, a similar esoteric doctrine might have been current in prehistoric societies. True, the modern esoteric doctrines may have been derived from higher cultures. But the significant fact remains that, if so derived, they yet had a meaning for certain members of the primitive society and were considered valuable enough to be carefully preserved. We have seen that many thoughts are unthinkable apart from an appropriate vocabulary and frame of reference. But the fundamental ideas of the Perennial Philosophy can be formulated in a very simple vocabulary, and the experiences to which the ideas refer can and indeed must be had immediately and apart from any vocabulary whatsoever. Strange openings and theophanies are granted to quite small children, who are often profoundly and permanently affected by these experiences. We have no reason to suppose that what happens now to persons with small vocabularies did not happen in remote antiquity. In the modern world (as Vaughan and Traherne and Wordsworth, among others, have told us) the child tends to grow out of his direct awareness of the one Ground of things; for the habit of analytical thought is fatal to the intuitions of integral thinking, whether on the psychic or the spiritual level. Psychic preoccupations may be and often are a major obstacle in the way of genuine spirituality. In primitive societies now (and, presumably, in the remote past) there is much preoccupation with, and a widespread talent for, psychic thinking. But a few people may have worked their way through psychic into genuinely spiritual experiencejust as, even in modern industrialized societies, a few people work their way out of the prevailing preoccupation with matter and through the prevailing habits of analytical thought into the direct experience of the spiritual Ground of things.
Such, then, very briefly are the reasons for supposing that the historical traditions of oriental and our own classical antiquity may be true. It is interesting to find that at least one distinguished contemporary ethnologist is in agreement with Aristotle and the Vedantists. Orthodox ethnology, writes Dr. Paul Radin in his Primitive Man as Philosopher, has been nothing but an enthusiastic and quite uncritical attempt to apply the Darwinian theory of evolution to the facts of social experience. And he adds that no progress in ethnology will be achieved until scholars rid themselves once and for all of the curious notion that everything possesses a history; until they realize that certain ideas and certain concepts are as ultimate for man, as a social being, as specific physiological reactions are ultimate for him, as a biological being. Among these ultimate concepts, in Dr. Radins view, is that of monotheism. Such monotheism is often no more than the recognition of a single dark and numinous Power ruling the world. But it may sometimes be genuinely ethical and spiritual.
1.01 - The Lord of hosts, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
3) Primitive water emanated from the air. He formed and established by it Bohu 14 (water, stones) mud and loam, made them like a bed, put them up like a wall, and surrounded them as with a rampart, put coldness upon them and they became dust, as it reads: "He says to the snow (coldness) be thou earth." (Job 37, 6.)
4) Fire or ether emanated from the water. He established by it the throne of glory, the Seraphim and Ophanim, the holy living creatures and the angels, and of these three He formed His habitation, as it reads: "Who made His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire." (Psalm 104, 4.) He selected three consonants from the simple ones which are in the hidden secret of three mothers or first elements: , air, water and ether or fire. He sealed them with spirit and fastened them to His great name and sealed with it six dimensions. 15
1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hollow voices cry out to the traveller, "Flee this place; go back to the cross-roads; there is still time." The young man hesitates, then replies, "Tomorrow." He covers his face with his hands so as not to see the bodies rolling into the ravine, and runs along the road, drawn on by an irresistible urge to go forward. He no longer wonders whether he will find a way out. With furrowed brow and clothes in disorder, he runs on in desperation. At last, thinking himself far away from the accursed place, he opens his eyes: there are no more fir-trees; all around are barren stones and grey dust. The sun has disappeared beyond the horizon; night is coming on. The road has lost itself in an endless desert. The desperate traveller, worn out by his long run, wants to stop; but he must walk on. All around him is ruin; he hears stifled cries; his feet stumble on skeletons. In the distance, the thick mist takes on terrifying shapes; black forms loom up; something huge and misshapen suggests itself. The traveller flies rather than walks towards the goal he senses and which seems to flee from him; wild cries direct his steps; he brushes against phantoms. At last he sees before him a huge edifice, dark, desolate, gloomy, a castle to make one say with a shudder: "A haunted castle." But the young man pays no attention to the bleakness of the place; these great black walls make no impression on him; as he stands on the dusty ground, he hardly trembles at the sight of these formidable towers; he thinks only that the goal is reached, he forgets his weariness and discouragement. As he approaches the castle, he brushes against a wall, and the wall crumbles; instantly everything collapses around him; towers, battlements, walls have vanished, sinking into dust which is added to the dust already covering the ground.
Owls, crows and bats fly out in all directions, screeching and circling around the head of the poor traveller who, dazed, downcast, overwhelmed, stands rooted to the spot, unable to move; suddenly, horror of horrors, he sees rising up before him terrible phantoms who bear the names of Desolation, Despair, Disgust with life, and amidst the ruins he even glimpses Suicide, pallid and dismal above a bottomless gulf. All these malignant spirits surround him, clutch him, propel him towards the yawning chasm. The poor youth tries to resist this irresistible force, he wants to draw back, to flee, to tear himself away from all these invisible arms entwining and clasping him. But it is too late; he moves on towards the fatal abyss. He feels drawn, hypnotized by it. He calls out; no voice answers to his cries. He grasps at the phantoms, everything gives way beneath him. With haggard eyes he scans the void, he calls out, he implores; the macabre laughter of Evil rings out at last.
1.024 - Affiliation With Larger Wholes, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and the Taittareya Upanishad we have, for instance, an enumeration of the gradations of happiness, which is a wonderful incentive for the mind to concentrate on higher values. In the Taittariya Upanishad we are told that human happiness is the lowest kind of happiness, and not the highest happiness, as we imagine. We think that perhaps we are superior to animals, plants and stones, etc., and biologists of the modern world are likely to tell us that we are Homo sapiens, far advanced in the process of evolution, perhaps having reached the topmost level of evolution. It is not true. The Upanishad says that we are in a very low condition.
Essentially, the Upanishad tells us that all of the happiness of mankind put together is but a jot only a drop. Let us imagine the state of happiness of a healthy, young individual who is the king of the whole world. We know that there is no such person as a king of the whole world, yet let us imagine such a person who is the emperor of the whole world. No one is in opposition to this emperor. He is vibrantly healthy and youthful, and has all the powers of enjoyment. Everything in the world is under him. What is his happiness? The happiness of this emperor of the entire world can be regarded as the lowest jot of happiness.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
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older brother stones. She is the mother of the grain and the mother of all things. She is the mother of the
younger brother Frenchmen and of the strangers. She is the mother of the dance paraphernalia and of all
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the stones.342
What is cast in stone, so to speak, is remembered and what is remembered (in the absence of
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After a time three wagonloads of gold and precious stones came to the King for his youngest son. They
were sent by the kings who had been saved by the Princes sword and miraculous loaf, and who now
1.02 - Meeting the Master - Authors second meeting, March 1921, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Only a few days before my arrival a dismissed cook had managed to get stones hurled into Sri Aurobindo's house through the agency of a Mohammedan occultist. This was the topic of excited talk when I was at Pondicherry. Upendranath Banerjee, who hardly believed in the possibility of such occult phenomena, had gone to the terrace with a lantern and a lathi to find the culprit. I heard the whole story from Upen himself. The stone-throwing ended when the Mother took the matter in hand and removed the servant-boy, who was the medium, to another house. (The account of this is already given in my The Life of Sri Aurobindo.)
The Prabartak Sangh was started at Chandernagore by Motilal Roy and others under the inspiration of Sri Aurobindo. In the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo life is accepted as the field for the manifestation of the Divine. Its main aim is not liberation merely but the manifestation of divine perfection. In his vision not only the individual but the collectivity also is a term of the Divine. Acceptance of life includes the collective life. There is a deeper reason for accepting life. In his vision of the Reality Sri Aurobindo shows the rationality and the inevitability of an ascent by man to a higher consciousness than Mind. This ascent to the Higher Consciousness must lead to its descent in man. If the new element, the Supermind, is to become a permanent part of the earth-consciousness, then not only should it descend into the lowest plane of physical consciousness the subconscient but it must become a part of the collective consciousness on earth.
1.02 - THE QUATERNIO AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MERCURIUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Mercurius is conceived as spiritual blood,52 on the analogy of the blood of Christ. In Ephesians those who are separated are brought near in the blood of Christ. He makes the two one and has broken down the dividing wall in his flesh. Caro (flesh)53 is a synonym for the prima materia and hence for Mercurius. The one is a new man. He reconciles the two in one body,54 an idea which is figuratively represented in alchemy as the two-headed hermaphrodite. The two have one spirit, in alchemy they have one soul. Further, the lapis is frequently compared to Christ as the lapis angularis (cornerstone).55 As we know, the temple built upon the foundation of the saints inspired in the Shepherd of Hermas a vision of the great building into which human beings, streaming from the four quarters, inserted themselves as living stones, melting into it without seam.56 The Church is built upon the rock that gave Peter his name (Matthew 16 : 18).
[12] In addition, we learn from the scholia that the circle and the Hermetic vessel are one and the same, with the result that the mandala, which we find so often in the drawings of our patients, corresponds to the vessel of transformation. Consequently, the usual quaternary structure of the mandala57 would coincide with the alchemists quaternio of opposites. Lastly, there is the interesting statement that an Ecclesia spiritualis above all creeds and owing allegiance solely to Christ, the Anthropos, is the real aim of the alchemists endeavours. Whereas the treatise of Hermes is, comparatively speaking, very old, and in place of the Christian Anthropos mystery58 contains a peculiar paraphrase of it, or rather, its antique parallel,59 the scholia cannot be dated earlier than the beginning of the seventeenth century.60 The author seems to have been a Paracelsist physician. Mercurius corresponds to the Holy Ghost as well as to the Anthropos; he is, as Gerhard Dorn says, the true hermaphroditic Adam and Microcosm:
1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
His flowering world becomes a wastel and of dry stones and his life feels meaninglesseven though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire of renown.
Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his Minotaur. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration.
1.03 - A Parable, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
And covered with stones after death.
Because they destroyed
1.03 - On Knowledge of the World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
Man in this world resembles the guest who was invited to partake of the hospitality of a rich man. In token of respect, the servants set before him silver washing-basins, vessels of costly stones, perfumes of musk and amber with chafing dishes. The poor guest is overjoyed at the sight of these things, thinking that they have been made his own property, and belays hold of them with the intention of retaining them. The next day, when he is upon the point of departure, they are all taken from him by force, and the measure of his disappointment and regret is clear to every person of discrimination. Seeing that this world is itself a mansion built for travellers, by the road over which they are to pass, that they may make a halt, and lay in provisions preparatory to leaving it again, he is a wise guest who does not lay bis hand upon other things than his necessary provisions, lest on the morrow when about to move on, they take them out of his hands, and he expose himself to regret and sorrow.
The people of this world are also like the passengers in a ship, who while sailing upon the sea, arrive at an island. The sailors draw the ship to the shore, and then call out and say, "whoever wishes for water or other provisions, let him leave the ship and go and procure them : let him not delay, for the ship will not remain long. It is besides a dangerous place, and whoever remains here will perish." After receiving this warning, the passengers leave the ship, and are all scattered about, one in this direction and another in that. The wise passengers, remembering the admonition of the sailors, attended quickly to their affairs, and immediately returned to the ship. They selected the places in the ship [73] that pleased them best, and sat down calm and tranquil. Some of the passengers, however, gazed at the trees, the flowers and the fruits of the island, listened to and admired the notes of the birds, and became absorbed in looking at the wonderful curiosities found there. They delayed so long, that when they came to the ship, they found every place in the ship occupied, and no room for them to sit down. They finally entered, and found a corner with great difficulty, where they could just press themselves in. Others, not satisfied with gazing around, loaded themselves with stones that had the appearance of being precious, and after a time returned to the ship. They found it completely full, and absolutely no place to sit down. After they had entered, they were compelled from necessity to stow themselves in a dark place at the bottom. As for the stones which they had thought were jewels, they lost their color, putrefied, and sent forth such a disagreeable odor, as to affect the passengers to nausea. It was impossible to expel the odor and they remained to the last with its disagreeableness in the midst of them. Others still took so much pleasure in looking about the island, that they said to themselves, "where shall we be able to find a more delightful retreat than this ? It is not clear that the place where we are going is better than this," And so they chose to remain there; and after the departure of the ship some of them perished with hunger and thirst, and some were devoured by wild beasts. Not one of them was saved. In the future world they will certainly suffer pain and retribution.
The Alchemy of Happiness, by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, the Mohammedan Philosopher, trans. Henry A. Homes (Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1873). Transactions of the Albany Institute, vol. VIII.
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
containing fruits and stones. These fruits and stones they anoint
and place on a board, murmuring as they do so, "O lord sun, moon,
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custom the ceremony of anointing stones, in order that the bullets
may recoil from the men like raindrops from the stones, is a piece
of pure homoeopathic or imitative magic; but the prayer to the sun,
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were to choose a king, were wont to stand on stones planted in the
ground, and to proclaim their votes, in order to foreshadow from the
steadfastness of the stones that the deed would be lasting."
But while a general magical efficacy may be supposed to reside in
all stones by reason of their common properties of weight and
solidity, special magical virtues are attri buted to particular
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Peru employed certain stones for the increase of maize, others for
the increase of potatoes, and others again for the increase of
cattle. The stones used to make maize grow were fashioned in the
likeness of cobs of maize, and the stones destined to multiply
cattle had the shape of sheep.
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sacred stones are endowed with miraculous powers which correspond in
their nature to the shape of the stone. Thus a piece of water-worn
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take stones of less-marked character from other men and let them lie
near his, in order to imbue them with the magic virtue which resides
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that such stones were used as amulets long before they were worn as
mere ornaments. Thus the Greeks gave the name of tree-agate to a
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present day; in Albania nursing mothers wear the stones in order to
ensure an abundant flow of milk. Again, the Greeks believed in a
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Four Twos of the Tarot. Its precious stones are the Star
Ruby representing the male energy of the creative Star, and the Turquoise suggesting Mazlos, the Sphere of the
1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
As such they are the foundation stones of the psychic structure,
which in its totality exceeds the limits of consciousness and
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
After a few days he reflected, 'The holy man asked me to go forward. He didn't tell me to stop here.' So he went forward and found a silver-mine. After a few days he went still farther and discovered a gold-mine, and next, mines of diamonds and precious stones.
With these he became immensely rich.
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And shrubs beneath the waves, grow stones above.
The great immortals grateful Perseus prais'd,
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds may be thought of, in Ren Gunons phrase, as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godheads creative energy. The creature, as creature, may be very far from God, in the sense that it lacks the intelligence to discover the nature of the divine Ground of its being. But the creature in its eternal essenceas the meeting place of creatureliness and primordial Godheadis one of the infinite number of points where divine Reality is wholly and eternally present. Because of this, rational beings can come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, non-rational and inanimate beings may reveal to rational beings the fulness of Gods presence within their material forms. The poets or the painters vision of the divine in nature, the worshippers awareness of a holy presence in the sacrament, symbol or imagethese are not entirely subjective. True, such perceptions cannot be had by all perceivers, for knowledge is a function of being; but the thing known is independent of the mode and nature of the knower. What the poet and painter see, and try to record for us, is actually there, waiting to be apprehended by anyone who has the right kind of faculties. Similarly, in the image or the sacramental object the divine Ground is wholly present. Faith and devotion prepare the worshippers mind for perceiving the ray of Godhead at its point of intersection with the particular fragment of matter before him. Incidentally, by being worshipped, such symbols become the centres of a field of force. The longings, emotions and imaginations of those who kneel and, for generations, have knelt before the shrine create, as it were, an enduring vortex in the psychic medium, so that the image lives with a secondary, inferior divine life projected on to it by its worshippers, as well as with the primary divine life which, in common with all other animate and inanimate beings, it possesses in virtue of its relation to the divine Ground. The religious experience of sacramentalists and image worshippers may be perfectly genuine and objective; but it is not always or necessarily an experience of God or the Godhead. It may be, and perhaps in most cases it actually is, an experience of the field of force generated by the minds of past and present worshippers and projected on to the sacramental object where it sticks, so to speak, in a condition of what may be called second-hand objectivity, waiting to be perceived by minds suitably attuned to it. How desirable this kind of experience really is will have to be discussed in another section. All that need be said here is that the iconoclasts contempt for sacraments and symbols, as being nothing but mummery with stocks and stones is quite unjustified.
The workmen still in doubt what course to take,
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St. Bernard speaks in what seems a similar strain. What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. And in another of his letters he says: Listen to a man of experience: thou wilt learn more in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach thee more than thou canst acquire from the mouth of a magister. The phrases are similar; but their inner significance is very different. In Augustines language, God alone is to be enjoyed; creatures are not to be enjoyed but usedused with love and compassion and a wondering, detached appreciation, as means to the knowledge of that which may be enjoyed. Wordsworth, like almost all other literary Nature-worshippers, preaches the enjoyment of creatures rather than their use for the attainment of spiritual endsa use which, as we shall see, entails much self-discipline for the user. For Bernard it goes without saying that his correspondents are actively practising this self-discipline and that Nature, though loved and heeded as a teacher, is only being used as a means to God, not enjoyed as though she were God. The beauty of flowers and landscape is not merely to be relished as one wanders lonely as a cloud about the countryside, is not merely to be pleasurably remembered when one is lying in vacant or in pensive mood on the sofa in the library, after tea. The reaction must be a little more strenuous and purposeful. Here, my brothers, says an ancient Buddhist author, are the roots of trees, here are empty places; meditate. The truth is, of course, that the world is only for those who have deserved it; for, in Philos words, even though a man may be incapable of making himself worthy of the creator of the cosmos, yet he ought to try to make himself worthy of the cosmos. He ought to transform himself from being a man into the nature of the cosmos and become, if one may say so, a little cosmos. For those who have not deserved the world, either by making themselves worthy of its creator (that is to say, by non-attachment and a total self-naughting), or, less arduously, by making themselves worthy of the cosmos (by bringing order and a measure of unity to the manifold confusion of undisciplined human personality), the world is, spiritually speaking, a very dangerous place.
That Nirvana and Samsara are one is a fact about the nature of the universe; but it is a fact which cannot be fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this truth by hearsay, and to act upon it in practice, is merely to court disaster. All the dismal story of antinomianism is there to warn us of what happens when men and women make practical applications of a merely intellectual and unrealized theory that all is God and God is all. And hardly less depressing than the spectacle of antinomianism is that of the earnestly respectable well-rounded life of good citizens who do their best to live sacramentally, but dont in fact have any direct acquaintance with that for which the sacramental activity really stands. Dr. Oman, in his The Natural and the Supernatural, writes at length on the theme that reconciliation to the evanescent is revelation of the eternal; and in a recent volume, Science, Religion and the Future, Canon Raven applauds Dr. Oman for having stated the principles of a theology, in which there could be no ultimate antithesis between nature and grace, science and religion, in which, indeed, the worlds of the scientist and the theologian are seen to be one and the same. All this is in full accord with Taoism and Zen Buddhism and with such Christian teachings as St. Augustines Ama et fac quod vis and Father Lallemants advice to theocentric contemplatives to go out and act in the world, since their actions are the only ones capable of doing any real good to the world. But what neither Dr. Oman nor Canon Raven makes sufficiently clear is that nature and grace, Samsara and Nirvana, perpetual perishing and eternity, are really and experientially one only to persons who have fulfilled certain conditions. Fac quod vis in the temporal world but only when you have learnt the infinitely difficult art of loving God with all your mind and heart and your neighbor as yourself. If you havent learnt this lesson, you will either be an antinomian eccentric or criminal or else a respectable well-rounded-lifer, who has left himself no time to understand either nature or grace. The Gospels are perfectly clear about the process by which, and by which alone, a man may gain the right to live in the world as though he were at home in it: he must make a total denial of selfhood, submit to a complete and absolute mortification. At one period of his career, Jesus himself seems to have undertaken austerities, not merely of the mind, but of the body. There is the record of his forty days fast and his statement, evidently drawn from personal experience, that some demons cannot be cast out except by those who have fasted much as well as prayed. (The Cur dArs, whose knowledge of miracles and corporal penance was based on personal experience, insists on the close correlation between severe bodily austerities and the power to get petitionary prayer answered in ways that are sometimes supernormal.) The Pharisees reproached Jesus because he came eating and drinking, and associated with publicans and sinners; they ignored, or were unaware of, the fact that this apparently worldly prophet had at one time rivalled the physical austerities of John the Baptist and was practising the spiritual mortifications which he consistently preached. The pattern of Jesus life is essentially similar to that of the ideal sage, whose career is traced in the Oxherding Pictures, so popular among Zen Buddhists. The wild ox, symbolizing the unregenerate self, is caught, made to change its direction, then tamed and gradually transformed from black to white. Regeneration goes so far that for a time the ox is completely lost, so that nothing remains to be pictured but the full-orbed moon, symbolizing Mind, Suchness, the Ground. But this is not the final stage. In the end, the herdsman comes back to the world of men, riding on the back of his ox. Because he now loves, loves to the extent of being identified with the divine object of his love, he can do what he likes; for what he likes is what the Nature of Things likes. He is found in company with wine-bibbers and butchers; he and they are all converted into Buddhas. For him, there is complete reconciliation to the evanescent and, through that reconciliation, revelation of the eternal. But for nice ordinary unregenerate people the only reconciliation to the evanescent is that of indulged passions, of distractions submitted to and enjoyed. To tell such persons that evanescence and eternity are the same, and not immediately to qualify the statement, is positively fatalfor, in practice, they are not the same except to the saint; and there is no record that anybody ever came to sanctity, who did not, at the outset of his or her career, behave as if evanescence and eternity, nature and grace, were profoundly different and in many respects incompatible. As always, the path of spirituality is a knife-edge between abysses. On one side is the danger of mere rejection and escape, on the other the danger of mere acceptance and the enjoyment of things which should only be used as instruments or symbols. The versified caption which accompanies the last of the Oxherding Pictures runs as follows.
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The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold. The gates at first were the end of the world. The green trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubim! And young men glittering and sparkling angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should the. But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places. Eternity was manifested in the light of the day, and something infinite behind everything appeared; which talked with my expectation and moved my desire. The city seemed to stand in Eden, or to be built in Heaven. The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine, as much as their sparkling eyes, fair skins and ruddy faces. The skies were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the world was mine; and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it. And so it was that with much ado I was corrupted and made to learn the dirty devices of the world. Which now I unlearn, and become as it were a little child again, that I may enter into the Kingdom of God.
Thomas Traherne
1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
An illustration of this fire of reprobation and banishment may be found in this world, by supposing that a company travelling by night should come into a valley that was very stony, and as they went on their way, they should hear a voice calling out, "Take good heed and carry away with you an abundance of these stones; you [94] will have occasion to use them at some future time." Some of those who heard the voice, exercised prudence, and carried off as many stones as they could; others for the sake of saving themselves trouble, carried off only a few. Others still, did not carry away any, saying, "it is folly to take pains and trouble for the sake of an advantage that is future and prospective : indeed it is not clear that there will be any advantage at all." Besides, they treated as stupid and foolish those who did carry any away, and said, "look at those insane people, who, from pure cupidity and craving for what is impossible, load themselves down like asses, and give themselves useless pains. We are the comfortable ones, who go on our way free, joyful and without concern for the future." When the light of day dawned, they saw that all the stones were invaluable rubies and sapphires, each one of which was worth at least three thousand drachms of silver. Then those who had brought away stones, exclaimed, "alas! that we were not able to bring away any more." But those who had brought away nothing and had traveled with comfort and ease, were overwhelmed with the fire of reprobation; they strike their heads upon the ground with the energy of remorse, and are filled with sighs and lamentations. Those who had brought away stones, arrived at the city whither they had been going, and bought estates and slaves, jewels and rich and pleasant eatables and all kinds of raiment, and gave themselves up to banqueting and enjoyment, while those who had not brought away any stones, became so hungry, destitute and naked, that they went about desiring to perform for them some kind of service. But when they begged of them either food or drink, they said, in accordance with what God says in his ancient word. "The dwellers in fire shall call out to the inhabitants of Paradise, 'pour out upon us a little of your water and of the enjoyments God has bestowed upon you.'" They will answer, "God has forbidden [95] the unbelievers either."1 "No, we shall give you nothing, for God has prohibited you from having anything. Yesterday you were laughing at us, to-day we laugh at you: as God declares in his eternal word, 'If you mock at us, we will in our turn mock at you, as ye have mocked at us.'"2
This illustration of the enjoyments of Paradise has been made in very brief and comprehensive language, to serve as an example, but it is impossible by any similitude to give an idea of what it is to be separated from the contemplation of the beauty of the Lord. For whoever has but once experienced the delight of being near to God, and has enjoyed the vision of the beauty of the Lord, would perish if he should be for one moment separated from it. Even the last and least person who quits hell will receive a mansion from the Lord God which is equal to ten of these worlds. But we do not mean to say ten worlds in surface or in amount by number and weight, but ten worlds in value and in the beauty they display arid the pleasure they afford.
1.04 - The 33 seven double letters, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty 38 houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear.
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But all this triple labour is a work of great responsibility, minute research and an immense & meticulous industry. Meanwhile I hold myself justified in opening the way by a purely hypothetical entrance into the subject, suggesting possibilities for the present rather than seeking to enforce a settled opinion. There is a possible theory that may be proposed, certain provisional details of it that may be formulated. A few initial stones may be laid down to help in crossing by a convenient ford this great stream of the Veda.
The statement of a few principal details of the Vedic system according to the theory I wish to suggest, a simple enumeration without comments, may help the reader to find his way through the following pages.
1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Intelligence ". All hybrids are attri buted here ; its bird is the Magpie, and Alexandrite and Tourmaline its precious stones. Its colour is Mauve, and its plants are all forms and species of Orchids.
The Tarot card is VI. - The Lovers. Ancient packs describe this as representing a man between two women, who arc Vice and Virtue, Lilith, the wife of the evil Samael, and Eve. Modern cards, however, show a nude male and female figure, with an angel or a Cupid with outspread wings hovering above them.
1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
the various precious stones that make
her tiara shine of their own radiance.
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
I saw there humble and contrite souls depressed by the weight of their burden. Their voices and outcries to God would have moved the very stones to compassion. For, casting their gaze to the earth they would say: We know, we know that in all justice we deserve every punishment and torment. For how could we make satisfaction for the multitude of our debts even if we were to summon the whole world to weep for us? But this is our only petition, this our prayer, this our supplication, that He may not rebuke us in anger, nor chasten us in His wrath.1 Punish, but spare! It is sufficient for us if Thou deliverest us from Thy great threat, from the unknown and hidden torments. For we dare not ask for complete forgivenesshow could we? For we have not kept our vow but have defiled it, even Thy past loving kindness and forgiveness.
And there, friends, the fulfilment of the words of David could be clearly seen, men enduring hardship and bowed down to the end of their life, going about with a sad countenance all day long, the wounds in their body stinking of rottenness,2 and they took no notice of them, and they forgot to eat their bread, and they mingled their drink of water with weeping; they ate dust and ashes with their bread, and their bones cleaved to their flesh, and were withered like grass.3 You could hear from them nothing but the words: Woe, woe! Alas, alas! It is just, it is just! Spare us, spare us O Lord. Some were saying: Have mercy, have mercy, and others still more plaintively: Forgive, O Lord; forgive if it is possible.
1.05 - Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
From what has been said, it naturally follows that we cannot be taught to love, appreciate, and assimilate religion everywhere and by everybody. The "books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything" is all very true as a poetical figure: but nothing can impart to a man a single grain of truth unless he has the undeveloped germs of it in himself. To whom do the stones and brooks preach sermons? To the human soul, the lotus of whose inner holy shrine is already quick with life.
And the light which causes the beautiful opening out of this lotus comes always from the good and wise teacher. When the heart has thus been opened, it becomes fit to receive teaching from the stones or the brooks, the stars, or the sun, or the moon, or from any thing which has its existence in our divine universe; but the unopened heart will see in them nothing but mere stones or mere brooks. A blind man may go to a museum, but he will not profit by it in any way; his eyes must be opened first, and then alone he will be able to learn what the things in the museum can teach.
This eye-opener of the aspirant after religion is the teacher. With the teacher, therefore, our relationship is the same as that between an ancestor and his descendant. Without faith, humility, submission, and veneration in our hearts towards our religious teacher, there cannot be any growth of religion in us; and it is a significant fact that, where this kind of relation between the teacher and the taught prevails, there alone gigantic spiritual men are growing; while in those countries which have neglected to keep up this kind of relation the religious teacher has become a mere lecturer, the teacher expecting his five dollars and the person taught expecting his brain to be filled with the teacher's words, and each going his own way after this much has been done. Under such circumstances spirituality becomes almost an unknown quantity. There is none to transmit it and none to have it transmitted to.
1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
clairvoyance begins. For these flowers are the sense-organs of the soul, and their revolutions express the fact that the clairvoyant perceives supersensibly. What was said previously concerning spiritual seeing applies equally to these revolutions and even to the lotus flowers themselves. No one can perceive the supersensible until he has developed his astral senses in this way. Thanks to the spiritual organ situated in the vicinity of the larynx, it becomes possible to survey clairvoyantly the thoughts and mentality of other beings, and to obtain a deeper insight into the true laws of natural phenomena. The organ situated near the heart permits of clairvoyant knowledge of the sentiments and disposition of other souls. When developed, this organ also makes it possible to observe certain deeper forces in animals and plants. By means of the organ in the so-called pit of the stomach, knowledge is acquired of the talents and capacities of souls; by its means, too, the part played by animals, plants, stones, metals, atmospheric phenomena and so on in the household of nature becomes apparent.
The organ in the vicinity of the larynx has
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
then I am just a stones throw away from the mentality that was responsible for Hitlers final solution, or
for the Spanish inquisition, or for Lenins cultural cleansing.
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From the side we looked like two reddish stones in the field.
Somewhere young men of our age were studying at the Sorbonne or at Oxford, playing tennis during
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The stones rustle beneath our feet. We are ascending....
With the years, armor-plated restraint covers your heart and all your skin. You do not hasten to
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take part in the operation.575 Transform yourself from dead stones into living philosophers stones,
writes Dorn. According to Gichtel, we not only receive a new soul with this regeneration but also a new
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his enemies included five kings who were hung on trees and then buried in a cave with great stones rolled against it
(Joshua 10:16ff.). Solomon, the king who succeeded David, is a type of Christ as a temple builder and wise teacher:
1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
rain. Thus the Sulka of New Britain heat stones red hot in the fire
and then put them out in the rain, or they throw hot ashes in the
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not like to be burned by the hot stones or ashes. The Telugus send a
little girl out naked into the rain with a burning piece of wood in
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rain, and the down the clouds. During the ceremony two large stones
are placed in the middle of the hut; they stand for gathering clouds
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high up in trees the two stones, which stand for clouds, is a way of
making the real clouds to mount up in the sky. The Dieri also
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heap of stones or sand, places on the top of it his magic stone, and
walks or dances round the pile chanting his incantations for hours,
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procure rain they blacken stones with the ashes of certain fruits
and set them out, along with certain other plants and buds, in the
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and if any one steps on the stones and throws water so as to wet the
farthest stone, which is called the Red Altar, "it is but a chance
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the moon, and some of them have been known to throw stones and
spears at the moon, in order to accelerate its progress and so to
1.06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Should oft, when crunched between the might of stones,
Give forth a sign of blood, or of aught else
1.06 - Magicians as Kings, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
ground, where are kept the holy stones and sticks (_churinga_) with
which the souls of all the people, both living and dead, are
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pot. When he wishes to produce rain he plunges the stones in water,
and taking in his hand a peeled cane, which is split at the top, he
1.06 - The Sign of the Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
accordance with I Peter 2:5: "Be you also as living stones built
up." 70 This is a logical development of the teaching about the
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70 Cf. the building of the seamless tower (church) with "living stones" in the
"Shepherd" of Hermas.
1.07 - On mourning which causes joy., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
He who sometimes mourns and sometimes indulges in luxury and laughter is like one who stones the dog of sensuality with bread. In appearance he is driving it away, but in fact he is encouraging it to be constantly with him.
Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart. For the demons fear concentration as thieves fear dogs.
1.07 - The Magic Wand, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The magician wealthy enough for financial considerations not to matter can use, instead of the fluid condenser, a condenser made of semi-precious stones. He will use for his electric fluid, a copper-rod the inside of which is filled with pulverized amber, an unsurpassed condenser for this kind of fluid. For his operations with the magnetic fluid he will, in this case, have to fill up the steel-pipe with pulverized rock-crystal instead of using a solid condenser. Rock-crystal, again, is a very good fluid condenser for the magnetic fluid. But it is also possible to solder two separate small pipes, thus making a single rod out of them; one half of the tube is, in this case, filled up with pulverized amber, the other with pulverized rock-crystal. Having done this, a single rod, separated in the middle, will contain both kinds of fluid condensers. In a case like this, however, the two halves must be connected by a thin piece of copper - or iron - wire going through the centre of both pipes. The outside of such a rod may be nickel45 plated. This ideal wand then has a unique fluid capacity and will serve any magical operation.
There is still another possibility: a wooden rod may by ornamented with seven rings made of the planetary metals. The rings should be fixed to the rod in quabbalistic order. That is, a golden ring (for the Sun) is placed in the middle of the rod and three metal rings on each side. The following metals may be used for the rings in question:
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The sound within the stones still lay enshrin'd:
Hither the daughter of the purple king
1.08 - On freedom from anger and on meekness., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
10. As a hard stone with sharp corners has all its sharpness and hard formation crushed by knocking and rubbing against other stones, and is made round, and in the same way a sharp and curt soul, by living in community and mixing with hard, hot-tempered men, undergoes one of two things: either it cures its wound by its patience, or by retiring it will certainly discover its weakness, its cowardly flight making this clear to it as in a mirror.
11. An angry person is a wilful epileptic, who on a casual pretext keeps breaking out and falling down.
1.08 - Origin of Rudra: his becoming eight Rudras, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
ga, Kūrma, and Bhāgavata Purāṇas. Indra is knocked down and trampled on; Yama has his staff broken; Sarasvatī and the Mātris have their noses cut off; Mitra or Bhaga has his eyes pulled out; Puṣā has his teeth knocked down his throat; Candra is pummelled; Vahni's hands are cut off; Bhrigu loses his beard; the Brahmans are pelted with stones; the Prajāpatis are beaten; and the gods and demigods are run through with swords or stuck with arrows.
[7]: This is also mentioned in the Li
1.098 - The Transformation from Human to Divine, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Thus, great caution is given by Patanjali himself that one who is not sufficiently equipped with the requisites of vairagya will not be able to go even one step in yoga. When we open the eyes of yogic perception even as a student of yoga, and not necessarily as an adept we will begin to see new meanings in things. When we talk to our friends, they will not be friends with whom we are talking. They will be some significances which we are encountering and facing. We will begin to see the meaning within the forms of the world, which we missed in the forms commonly encountered by the senses in ordinary life. There are no such things as friends and enemies in this world. They do not exist. For yogic vision, there are no such things as humans, animals, trees, stones, etc. They do not exist. They are something extraordinary in this world. Even the things that we see with our eyes, even just now, are extraordinary things. We miss their meaning due to a habituation of the mind through this gross perception of personalities.
The personalities are not personalities at all for yogic vision. They are not persons. They are only configurations of a cosmical significance, which has to be grasped very well before we are able to face anything. We have to guard ourselves well in every respect. The beginning of yogic perception is the recognition of the fact that we are citizens of the universe, not citizens of India or America or any country nothing of the kind. We are not even inhabitants of this earth; we are something more than that. We are denizens of the whole cosmos, and the laws of the universe will act upon us, and they will subject us to obedience. They are the forces that we are facing.
1.09 - The Guardian of the Threshold, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
[paragraph continues] They assume an independent form which thou canst see even as thou beholdest the stones and plants of the outer world. And . . . I am that very being who shaped my body out of thy good and evil achievements. My spectral form is woven out of thine own life's record. Till now thou hast borne me invisibly within thee, and it was well that this was so; for the wisdom of thy destiny, though concealed from thee, could thus work within thee, so that the hideous stains on my form should be blotted out. Now that I have come forth from within thee, that concealed wisdom, too, has departed from thee. It will pay no further heed to thee; it will leave the work in thy hands alone. I must become a perfect and glorious being, or fall a prey to corruption; and should this occur, I would drag thee also down with me into a dark and corrupt world. If thou wouldst avoid this, then thine own wisdom must become great enough to undertake the task of that other, concealed wisdom, which has departed from thee. As a form visible to thyself I will never for an instant leave thy side, once thou hast crossed my Threshold. And in future, whenever thou dost act or think wrongly thou wilt straightway perceive thy guilt
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1.09 - The Worship of Trees, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
pork are made on heaps of stones piled under the trees. In China it
has been customary from time immemorial to plant trees on graves in
1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And all the sparkling stones of various hue:
And parrots, imitating human tongue,
1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Then 'twas the deafen'd stones flew on with speed,
And saw, unsooth'd, their tuneful poet bleed.
1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
How many pearls and precious stones
Are scattered all about
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Master's exhortation to a devotee to go forward Kedar believed in certain queer practices of a religious sect to which he had once belonged. He held the Master's big toe in his hand, believing that in this way the Master's spiritual power would be transmitted to him. As Sri Ramakrishna regained partial consciousness, he said, "Mother, what can he do to me by holding my toe?" Kedar sat humbly with folded hands. Still in an ecstatic mood, the Master said to Kedar: "Your mind is still attracted by 'woman and gold'. What is the use of saying you don't care for it? Go forward. Beyond the forest of sandalwood there are many more things: mines of silver, gold, diamonds, and other precious stones. Having a glimpse of spirituality, don't think you have attained everything." The Master was again in an ecstatic mood. He said to the Divine Mother, "Mother, take him away." At these words Kedar's throat dried up.
In a frightened tone he said to Ram, "What is the Master saying?"
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Go forward. The wood-cutter, following the instructions of the holy man, went forward and found in the forest sandalwood and mines of silver and gold; and going still farther, he found diamonds and other precious stones.
"The ignorant are like people living in a house with clay walls. There is very little light inside, and they cannot see outside at all. But those who enter the world after attaining the Knowledge of God are like people living in a house made of glass. For them both inside and outside are light. They can see things outside as well as inside.
1.12 - The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
Of stones, which oftentimes did move themselves
Beneath my feet, from the unwonted burden.
1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
With darts, and stones assail the frantick queen.
She snarls, and growls, nor in an human tone;
1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
qualities of marcasites, all the essence of precious stones. How should I count all
these things, and name them? They are all within man, no fewer and no less, as
1.14 - The Structure and Dynamics of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
12 Church built of living stones in the Shepherd of Hennas. [Psychological Types,
ch. V, 4a.]
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things, from stones and metals to the highest living organisms.
In the form of a snake he dwells inside the earth, has a body,
1.14 - The Succesion to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
themselves in a fight, striking and throwing stones at each other.
Another Roman king who perished by violence was Tatius, the Sabine
1.18 - The Perils of the Soul, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
some hook-like stones, because they, as it were, hooked his soul to
his body, and so prevented the spiritual portion of him from
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In the Banks Islands there are some stones of a remarkably long
shape which go by the name of "eating ghosts," because certain
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man's shadow falls on one of these stones, the ghost will draw his
soul out from him, so that he will die. Such stones, therefore, are
set in a house to guard it; and a messenger sent to a house by the
1.19 - Dialogue between Prahlada and his father, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
On hearing this, Hiraṇyakaśipu started up from his throne in a fury, and spurned his son on the breast with his foot. Burning with rage, he wrung his hands, and exclaimed, "Ho Viprachitti! ho Rāhu! ho Bali[2]! bind him with strong bands[3], and cast him into the ocean, or all the regions, the Daityas and Dānavas, will become converts to the doctrines of this silly wretch. Repeatedly prohibited by us, he still persists in the praise of our enemies. Death is the just retribution of the disobedient." The Daityas accordingly bound the prince with strong bands, as their lord had commanded, and threw him into the sea. As he floated on the waters, the ocean was convulsed throughout its whole extent, and rose in mighty undulations, threatening to submerge the earth. This when Hiraṇyakaśipu observed, he commanded the Daityas to hurl rocks into the sea, and pile them closely on one another, burying beneath their iñcumbent mass him whom fire would not burn, nor weapons pierce, nor serpents bite; whom the pestilential gale could not blast, nor poison nor magic spirits nor incantations destroy; who fell from the loftiest heights unhurt; who foiled the elephants of the spheres: a son of depraved heart, whose life was a perpetual curse. "Here," he cried, "since he cannot die, here let him live for thousands of years at the bottom of the ocean, overwhelmed by mountains. Accordingly the Daityas and Dānavas hurled upon Prahlāda, whilst in the great ocean, ponderous rocks, and piled them over him for many thousand miles: but he, still with mind undisturbed, thus offered daily praise to Viṣṇu, lying at the bottom of the sea, under the mountain heap. "Glory to thee, god of the lotus eye: glory to thee, most excellent of spiritual things: glory to thee, soul of all worlds: glory to thee, wielder of the sharp discus: glory to the best of Brahmans; to the friend of Brahmans and of kine; to Kṛṣṇa, the preserver of the world: to Govinda be glory. To him who, as Brahmā, creates the universe; who in its existence is its preserver; be praise. To thee, who at the end of the Kalpa takest the form of Rudra; to thee, who art triform; be adoration. Thou, Achyuta, art the gods, Yakṣas, demons, saints, serpents, choristers and dancers of heaven, goblins, evil spirits, men, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, plants, and stones, earth, water, fire, sky, wind, sound, touch, taste, colour, flavour, mind, intellect, soul, time, and the qualities of nature: thou art all these, and the chief object of them all. Thou art knowledge and ignorance, truth and falsehood, poison and ambrosia. Thou art the performance and discontinuance of acts[4]: thou art the acts which the Vedas enjoin: thou art the enjoyer of the fruit of all acts, and the means by which they are accomplished. Thou, Viṣṇu, who art the soul of all, art the fruit of all acts of piety. Thy universal diffusion, indicating might and goodness, is in me, in others, in all creatures, in all worlds. Holy ascetics meditate on thee: pious priests sacrifice to thee. Thou alone, identical with the gods and the fathers of mankind, receivest burnt-offerings and oblations[5]. The universe is thy intellectual form[6]; whence proceeded thy subtile form, this world: thence art thou all subtile elements and elementary beings, and the subtile principle, that is called soul, within them. Hence the supreme soul of all objects, distinguished as subtile or gross, which is imperceptible, and which cannot be conceived, is even a form of thee. Glory be to thee, Puruṣottama; and glory to that imperishable form which, soul of all, is another manifestation[7] of thy might, the asylum of all qualities, existing in all creatures. I salute her, the supreme goddess, who is beyond the senses; whom the mind, the tongue, cannot define; who is to be distinguished alone by the wisdom of the truly wise. Om! salutation to Vāsudeva: to him who is the eternal lord; he from whom nothing is distinct; he who is distinct from all. Glory be to the great spirit again and again: to him who is without name or shape; who sole is to be known by adoration; whom, in the forms manifested in his descents upon earth, the dwellers in heaven adore; for they behold not his inscrutable nature. I glorify the supreme deity Viṣṇu, the universal witness, who seated internally, beholds the good and ill of all. Glory to that Viṣṇu from whom this world is not distinct. May he, ever to be meditated upon as the beginning of the universe, have compassion upon me: may he, the supporter of all, in whom every thing is warped and woven[8], undecaying, imperishable, have compassion upon me. Glory, again and again, to that being to whom all returns, from whom all proceeds; who is all, and in whom all things are: to him whom I also am; for he is every where; and through whom all things are from me. I am all things: all things are in me, who am everlasting. I am undecayable, ever enduring, the receptacle of the spirit of the supreme. Brahma is my name; the supreme soul, that is before all things, that is after the end of all. ootnotes and references:
[1]: These are the four Upāyas, 'means of success,' specified in the Amera-koṣa.
1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (smiling): "Why, is the name a trifling thing? God is not different from His name. Satyabhama tried to balance Krishna with gold and precious stones, but could not do it. Then Rukmini put a tulsi-leaf with the name of Krishna on the scales. That balanced the Lord."
The doctor was ready to bandage the Master's arm. A bed was spread on the floor and the Master, laughing, lay down upon it. He said, intoning the words: "Ah! This is Radha's final stage. But Brinde says, 'Who knows what is yet to be?' "
1.200-1.224 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: Are the stones, etc. destined to be always so?
M.: Who sees stones? They are perceived by your senses, which are in turn actuated by your mind. So they are in your mind. Whose mind is it? The questioner must find it himself. If the Self be found this question will not arise.
The Self is more intimate than the objects. Find the subject, and the objects will take care of themselves. The objects are seen by different persons according to their outlook and these theories are evolved. But who is the seer, the cogniser of these
1.21 - Tabooed Things, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
of large stones piled against walls with tufts of human hair
inserted in the crevices. On asking the meaning of this, he was told
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These cairns of sacred stones, he further learned, were simply a
precaution against witchcraft, for if a man were not thus careful in
1.21 - WALPURGIS-NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
O'er the stones, the grasses, flowing
Stream and streamlet seek the hollow.
1.23 - FESTIVAL AT SURENDRAS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "No, I am not asking about his looks. He is guileless. One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.
"Niranjan will not marry. It is 'woman and gold' that causes entanglement. Isn't that so?"
1.23 - Improvising a Temple, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I was often reduced to such expedients when wandering in strange lands, camping on glaciers, and so on. I fixed it workably well. In Mexico, D.F. for instance, I took my bedroom itself for the Circle, my night-table for the Altar, my candle for the Lamp; and I made the Weapons compact. I had a Wand eight inches long, all precious stones and enamel, to represent the Tree of Life; within, an iron tube containing quicksilver very correct, lordly, and damsilly. What a club! Also, bought, a silver-gilt Cup; for Air and Earth I made one sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk packed with salt. In the wilds it was easy, agreeable and most efficacious to make a Circle, and build an altar, of stones; my Alpine Lantern served admirably for the Lamp. It did double duty when required: e.g. in partaking of the Sacrament of the Four Elements, it served for Fire. But your conditions are not so restricted as this.
Let us consider what one can do with an ordinary house, such as you are happy enough to possess.
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
While living on the hill He had seen a hut built of stones and mud and roofed with thatch. There was constant trouble with white ants.
The roof was pulled down and the walls demolished to get rid of the mud which harboured the ants. Sri Bhagavan saw that the hollows protected by stones were made into towns. These were skirted by walls plastered black, and there were roads to neighbouring cities which were also similarly skirted with black plastered walls. The roads were indicated by these walls. The interior of the town contained holes in which ants used to live. The whole wall was thus tenanted by white ants which ravaged the roofing materials above.
Sri Bhagavan had also watched a spider making its web and described it. It is seen in one place, then in another place, again in a third place. The fibre is fixed at all these points. The spider moves along it, descends, ascends and goes round and round and the web is finished. It is geometrical. The net is spread out in the morning and rolled up in the evening.
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Bhagavan saw him and enquired how he was. The man replied that he was looking out for a lost sheep. Sri Bhagavan kept quiet, as is usual with Him. Then He told the shepherd to help in lifting some stones, which he did with great pleasure. After the work was finished,
Sri Bhagavan told him: "Go this way", pointing the footpath towards the town. "You will find the stray sheep on the way". So he did and found the lost sheep with two little lambs.
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
While living on the hill He had seen a hut built of stones and mud and roofed with thatch. There was constant trouble with white ants.
The roof was pulled down and the walls demolished to get rid of the mud which harboured the ants. Sri Bhagavan saw that the hollows protected by stones were made into towns. These were skirted by walls plastered black, and there were roads to neighbouring cities which were also similarly skirted with black plastered walls. The roads were indicated by these walls. The interior of the town contained holes in which ants used to live. The whole wall was thus tenanted by white ants which ravaged the roofing materials above.
Sri Bhagavan had also watched a spider making its web and described it. It is seen in one place, then in another place, again in a third place. The fibre is fixed at all these points. The spider moves along it, descends, ascends and goes round and round and the web is finished. It is geometrical. The net is spread out in the morning and rolled up in the evening.
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Bhagavan saw him and enquired how he was. The man replied that he was looking out for a lost sheep. Sri Bhagavan kept quiet, as is usual with Him. Then He told the shepherd to help in lifting some stones, which he did with great pleasure. After the work was finished,
Sri Bhagavan told him: Go this way, pointing the footpath towards the town. You will find the stray sheep on the way. So he did and found the lost sheep with two little lambs.
1.28 - Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
gold and precious stones- a palace, in short, fit for so great a Lord. Imagine that it is partly your
doing that this palace should be what it is- and this is really true, for there is no building so
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brilliantly do the stones shine. Imagine that within the palace dwells this great King, Who has
vouchsafed to become your Father and Who is seated upon a throne of supreme price-namely,
1.28 - The Killing of the Tree-Spirit, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
and pursued by urchins throwing stones, they carry the puppet to the
village boundary, where they tear it in pieces. Then they cut down a
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the effigy is often carried out, of the sticks and stones with which
it is assailed, and the taunts and curses which are hurled at it?
1.3.04 - Peace, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is difficult to explain, but it is something like a mountain at which one throws stones - if conscious all through the
Peace
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mountain may feel the touch of the stones, but the thing would be so slight and superficial that it would not be in the least affected. In the end even that reaction disappears.
The peace liberates from all dependence on outer contacts - it brings what the Gita calls the atmarati. But at first there is a difficulty in keeping it intact when there is the contact with others because the consciousness has the habit of running outwards in speech or external interchange or else of coming down to the normal level. One must therefore be very careful until it is fixed; once fixed it usually defends itself, for all outer contacts become surface things to a consciousness full of the higher peace.
1.31 - Adonis in Cyprus, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Heliogabalus at Emesa in Syria. Conical stones, which apparently
served as idols, have also been found at Golgi in Cyprus, and in the
1.32 - The Ritual of Adonis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
For he crush'd him between two stones."
This concentration, so to say, of the nature of Adonis upon the
1.39 - The Ritual of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
two stones are set upright, one at the head and the other at the
foot, just as in an ordinary burial. Then the sheaf of wheat is laid
1.45 - The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
heavy by fastening stones in it. They bring it home on the last
waggon and call it the Great Mother, though they do not fashion it
1.47 - Lityerses, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
followed. This sacrifice was known as "the meeting of the stones."
We have seen that the ancient Mexicans also sacrificed human beings
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open space of every village surrounded by large stones which serve
as seats. The people then dance round them and feast and get drunk.
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between two stones.
One more point in these savage customs deserves to be noted. The
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corn-spirit with hoes or spades or by grinding him between stones,
and in the European custom of pretending to kill him with the scythe
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was crushed between two stones; and both in Africa and India the
ashes or other remains of the victim were scattered over the fields.
1.48 - The Corn-Spirit as an Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
farmyard cock by throwing stones at it or beheading it. Where this
custom has fallen into disuse, it is still common for the farmer's
1.54 - Types of Animal Sacrament, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
down round a circle of stones, which is erected by the side of a
road (really a narrow path). A very choice lamb is then fetched by a
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led up to the stones, and there killed by a man belonging to a kind
of priestly order, who takes some of the blood and sprinkles it four
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people rise, each places a leaf on or by the circle of stones, and
then they depart with signs of great joy. The lamb's skull is hung
on a tree near the stones, and its flesh is eaten by the poor. This
ceremony is observed on a small scale at other times. If a family is
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"May God bless the house and all that belongs to it, cattle, stones,
and timber! In plenty of meat, of bed and body clothes, and health
1.55 - The Transference of Evil, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
shift a load of wood, stones, or what not, from our own back to the
back of another, the savage fancies that it is equally possible to
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stone called _karriitch._ stones of this kind are found in old
mounds and sandhills. They are carefully collected and thrown in the
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behind. Others use stones instead of leaves. Similarly in the Babar
Archipelago tired people will strike themselves with stones,
believing that they thus transfer to the stones the weariness which
they felt in their own bodies. They then throw away the stones in
places which are specially set apart for the purpose. A like belief
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are to touch your warts with as many little stones as you have
warts; then wrap the stones in an ivy leaf, and throw them away in a
thoroughfare. Whoever picks them up will get the warts, and you will
1.56 - The Public Expulsion of Evils, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
dismal cry, running after him and pelting him with sticks, stones,
and whatever comes to hand. When they have driven him far enough out
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of broken statues and stones, considered as the abode of the demons,
were collected and brought to the capital. Here as many elephants
1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
jar filled with gunpowder, stones, and bits of iron is buried in the
earth. A train of gunpowder, communicating with the jar, is then
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up. The stones and bits of iron represent the ills and disasters of
the past year, and the dispersion of them by the explosion is
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number of stones may be noticed stuck into the ground, apparently
without order or method. These are known by the name of _asong,_ and
1.58 - Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
some parts of Europe is assailed with sticks and stones, and why at
Babylon the criminal who played the god scourged before he was
1.61 - The Myth of Balder, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
fire and water, iron and all metals, stones and earth, from trees,
sicknesses and poisons, and from all four-footed beasts, birds, and
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him, and others threw stones at him. But whatever they did, nothing
could hurt him; and at this they were all glad. Only Loki, the
1.62 - The Fire-Festivals of Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
round the fires singing, with stones on their heads, and then jump
over the blaze or the glowing embers. When the fire is burning low,
they throw the stones into it; and when it is nearly out, they make
crosses on their legs and then go straightway and ba the in the sea.
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morning, if any of these stones was found to be displaced or
injured, the people made sure that the person represented by it was
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they were up, they came to search out the stones, and if any one of
them was found to be missing, they had a notion that the person who
1.65 - Balder and the Mistletoe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
oak or knocked down with stones. Similarly, "so late as the early
part of the nineteenth century, people in Wales believed that for
1.72 - Education, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
So do you at least get together the stones that you need to build your Basilica!
Footnotes:
1914 06 09p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And what is thus before Thee is all the stones of this house and all it contains, all those who cross its threshold and all who see it, all who are connected with it in any way and from one to another the whole earth.
From this centre, this burning hearth which is now and shall be more and more permeated with Thy light and with Thy love, Thy forces will radiate over all the earth, visibly and invisibly in the hearts of all and in their thoughts
1914 11 03p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thus the solid foundations of Thy terrestrial work are prepared, the substructure of the immense edifice built; in every corner of the world one of Thy divine stones is laid by the power of conscious and formative thought; and in the hour of realisations the earth, thus prepared, will be ready to receive the sublime temple of Thy new and more complete manifestation.
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1929-05-12 - Beings of vital world (vampires) - Money power and vital beings - Capacity for manifestation of will - Entry into vital world - Body, a protection - Individuality and the vital world, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Individuality there is; only its forms are not so fixed and hard as the forms of embodied beings. Individuality does not mean an unplastic rigidity. A stone has a very rigid form, perhaps the most rigid we know, but there is very little individuality in it. Take ten or twenty stones together and you will have to be very careful if you want to discern between them. But the beings of the vital world can be recognised at the very first sight one from another; you distinguish them by something in the way in which the form is built, by the atmosphere which it carries with it, by the manner in which each moves and speaks and acts. As human beings change their expression according as they are happy or angry; these beings also undergo change in the stress of their moods, but the alteration is more intense in the vital world. Not only the mere expression but the very forms of the features change.
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1929-06-02 - Divine love and its manifestation - Part of the vital being in Divine love, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. And it is a Divine Force; for the distortions we see in its apparent workings belong to its instruments. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence. All the deformations of this great and divine Power come from the obscurity and ignorance and selfishness of the limited instrument. Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is, in its pure movement, the seeking for union of the self with the Divine, a seeking absolute and regardless of all other things. Love divine gives itself and asks for nothing. What human beings have made of it, we do not need to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thing. And yet even in human beings the first contact of love does bring down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselves, for a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface the human nature, full of its impure demands, asking for something in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine.
To manifest the Divine love you must be capable of receiving the Divine love. For only those can manifest it who are by their nature open to its native movement. The wider and clearer the opening in them, the more they manifest love divine in its original purity; the more it is mixed with the lower human feelings, the greater is the deformation. One who is not open to love in its essence and in its truth cannot approach the Divine. Even the seekers through knowledge come to a point beyond which if they want to go farther, they are bound to find themselves entering at the same time into love and to feel the two as one, knowledge the light of the divine union, love the very heart of knowledge. There is a place in the souls progress where they meet and you cannot distinguish one from the other. The division, the distinction between the two that you make in the beginning are a creation of the mind: once you rise to a higher level, they disappear.
1951-03-24 - Descent of Divine Love, of Consciousness - Earth- a symbolic formation - the Divine Presence - The psychic being and other worlds - Divine Love and Grace - Becoming consaious of Divine Love - Finding ones psychic being - Responsibility, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You say, Love is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones.1 If there is love in a stone, how can one see it?
Perhaps the different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of love. I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, this Matter was quite unconscious, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in general are the result of the effort of Love to bring consciousness into Matter. If one of you (I have my doubts, but still) went down into the Inconscient, what is called the pure Inconscient, you would realise what it is. A stone will seem to you a marvellously conscious object in comparison. You speak disdainfully of a stone because you have just a wee bit more consciousness than it has, but the difference between the consciousness of the stone and the total Inconscient is perhaps greater than that between the stone and you. And the coming out of the Inconscient is due exclusively to the sacrifice of the Divine, to this descent of Divine Love into the Inconscient. Consequently, when I said perhaps in the stone, I could have removed the perhaps I can assert that even in the stone it is there. There would be nothing, neither stone nor metal nor any organisation of atoms without this presence of Divine Love.
1951-04-07 - Origin of Evil - Misery- its cause, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, the whole universe is not ignorant there are parts of the universe which are not ignorant. When you say we you identify yourself with the universe or with mankind? Because this is a very important question. We say the world is unhappy because it has forgotten its origin, that is, its divine origin. You say, child, that we are unhappy because we are ignorant the we is men. Consequently, unhappiness has come into the world with menhere is something serious! That is, with man mind has come upon earth, you see, for man is a mental animal, and with the mind has come misery. The mind is capable of objectifying, and so it finds that such and such a thing is miserablewithout the mind there would be no such discovery and no unhappiness. So, there is no unhappiness for animals nor for plants, and yet less for stones. Are we agreed on this: there is no unhappiness for animals, plants and stones? We say unhappiness has come with the mind which has become conscious of it. Mark that I am trying to lead you to something which is not so stupid, for in the ancient Teaching it was said, Change your consciousness and what appears to you unfortunate will not so appear to you any longer. The Buddha taught that if you are free from desire, things that seemed to you unfortunate would no longer seem to you unfortunate at all. Therefore, we come to this: it is the thought you have about it which makes you consider this or that thing unfortunate. If you thought an event happy, it would become happy for you; and that is what it is, in fact. In most cases when the thought has accepted that a thing ought to be, for whatever reason, it is no longer unhappy; when the thought has not accepted this, it finds this unhappy. So, as long as you are in the field of emotions, of sentiments and thoughts, all this is true. That is, the notion of unhappiness has entered the world with the capacity to consider that things were unfortunate. You follow the logic? Thus, plants do not suffer because they do not know that they suffer and animals do not suffer because they do not know that they suffer. You are sure of it? Arent you?
One sees an expression of pain in their eyes.
1951-04-28 - Personal effort - tamas, laziness - Static and dynamic power - Stupidity - psychic and intelligence - Philosophies- different languages - Theories of Creation - Surrender of ones being and ones work, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Tell me, is your body absolutely conscious, conscious of itself, conscious of its functioning? No, then what is it? It can only be physical Nature. And if there is a physical Nature which is not conscious, it means that physical Nature and consciousness are not the same thing. Physical Nature includes everything that is physical: your body belongs to physical Nature, mountains, stones, the sky, water, fire all this belongs to physical Nature. But your physical Nature contains a consciousness, it is animated by a consciousness, though it is not entirely conscious. And precisely because it is not entirely conscious, it can be inert, tamasic, unconscious. Otherwise all would be conscious, stones also would be conscious (I dont know how far they are so, but it is to a very small extent compared with human consciousness).
Does not surrender consist in offering ones work like a good servant?
1953-08-19, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You say that perhaps stones also feel love?1
It is possible.
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One can feel it. There is a certain state of consciousness in which one perceives this divine Love wherever it is found, and one does not feel so great a difference between creatures as it appears physically. There is much more aspiration than one would think in things we call inanimate. Much more. In stones also there is a kind of spontaneous sense of what is higher, more noble, more pure, and though they cannot express it in any way, they feel it, and this affects them differently.
Even in things, even in objects, even in stones, there is a strange receptivity which comes from this Presence. There are stonesif you know how to do it that can accumulate forces. They can accumulate forces, keep them and transmit them. One can take stones (what are called precious stones) and concentrate forces into them and they keep them. And these forces irradiate slowly, very gradually. But if one knows how to do it one can accumulate such a quantity as would last, so to speak, indefinitely.
Are these forces of any use when they come out from the stones?
Certainly, yes! The stone can preserve the force almost indefinitely. There are those stones which can serve as a link, there are stones which can serve as a battery. There are stones which can hold a force for protection. That indeed is remarkable, my child. One can accumulate in a stone (particularly in amethysts) a force for protection, and the force truly protects the one who wears the stone. It is very interesting, I have experienced it. I knew someone who had a stone of this kind, charged with the power of protection, and it was wonderful when he wore it. There are stones which can be used to foretell events. Some people know how to read in these stones events which are going to happen. stones can carry messages. Naturally, this requires an ability on both sides: on one side, a sufficiently strong power of concentration; on the other, a power to see and read directly, without using very precise words either. Consequently, because they can serve as batteries, it means that they carry within them the source of the force itself, otherwise they wouldnt be receptive. It is a force of this kind that is at the origin of crystallisations, as in rock-crystals, for instance, which form such magnificent patterns, with such a complete harmony, and that comes from one thing alone, this Presence at the centre. Now, one doesnt see because one has no inner sensibility, but once one has the direct perception of the forces of love behind things, one sees that they are the same everywhere. Even in constructed things: one can come to understand what they say.
Anything else?
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"Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. And it is a Divine Force; for the distortions we see in its apparent workings belong to its instruments. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence."
Questions and Answers 1929-1931 (2 June 1929)
1954-03-03 - Occultism - A French scientists experiment, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know whether you remember or not the story of the stones, which fell in Sri Aurobindos house? Everybody knows it, so I wont narrate it.
What happen to this formation once it has worked ill? Does it continue?
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Everybody doesnt know the story of the stones. You narrated it only to the little children, Sweet Mother.
I narrated it to the little ones.
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There you are, now au revoir, my children. The story of the stones for another day. It is too late now.
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1954-07-14 - The Divine and the Shakti - Personal effort - Speaking and thinking - Doubt - Self-giving, consecration and surrender - Mothers use of flowers - Ornaments and protection, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sweet Mother, last time you said that stones have a kind of receptivity.
Yes.
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Perhaps they have even something resembling sensitivity. For instance, if you have a precious stoneprecious stones of course have a much more perfect structure than ordinary ones, and with perfection consciousness increases but if you take a precious stone, you can charge it with consciousness and force; you can put, accumulate force within it. So it is receptive, otherwise it will not receive it, it could not keep it. You can charge it. As one charges an electric battery, you can charge a stone with force, put conscious force into a stone; it keeps it and can transmit it to someone. Therefore this stone has a receptivity. Otherwise it could not do this.
Flowers are extremely receptive. All the flowers to which I have given a significance receive exactly the force I put into them and transmit it. People dont always receive it because most of the time they are less receptive than the flower, and they waste the force that has been put in it through their unconsciousness and lack of receptivity. But the force is there, and the flower receives it wonderfully.
1955-10-12 - The problem of transformation - Evolution, man and superman - Awakening need of a higher good - Sri Aurobindo and earths history - Setting foot on the new path - The true reality of the universe - the new race - ..., #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, not the being itself: the image he has manufactured after the event, and of which he has made a a political action. Excuse me, it is god made in mans image who has been put in temples and adored, for purely political reasons. But those who were in relation with those who manifested in themselves the Divine Reality, they have been very badly received, always. History is there to prove it. Now, you see, men dont throw stones any more, except at the poor Negroes sometimes in America; they dont burn people alive any more, it is no longer the fashion but they imprison, that happens. And in fact (I have said this already several times), what saves those who are not altogether men, is that today the world is in such a state of ignorance that people dont even believe any more in the reality of their power. But certainly if the governments believed in the reality of their power, they would have a bad time of it
But let us hope that I should say then as I said for men that the superman will be quite kind. Well, let us hope for the superman that he will know how to defend himself, that he will have some means of defence, not too visible but sufficient.
1956-09-26 - Soul of desire - Openness, harmony with Nature - Communion with divine Presence - Individuality, difficulties, soul of desire - personal contact with the Mother - Inner receptivity - Bad thoughts before the Mother, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Soul, the word for soul in French, me comes from a word which means to animate. It is what gives life to the body. If you didnt have it you would be inert matter, something like stones or plants, not altogether inert, but vegetative.
Some people say that without desires, that is, without this soul of desire, there would never have been any progress. In ordinary life it is something very useful but when one decides to do yoga, to find the Divine, it becomes a little cumbersome.
1957-06-26 - Birth through direct transmutation - Man and woman - Judging others - divine Presence in all - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo is probably alluding, among other things, to an incident which took place in 1921 in Pondicherry at the "Guest House" where he lived. A cook who had been dismissed had gone to a local black magician to try to take his revenge, and a shower of stones began to fall into the courtyard of the "Guest House", regularly for several days. The people on the first floor could see the stones forming in front of their eyes and then falling into the courtyard. These stones were so real that they hurt a young servant, and could be picked up. Strangely enough they were all covered with moss. Finally, when larger and larger stones started falling inside closed rooms, and there was no longer any doubt about their occult origin, Mother intervened with her inner power and the "shower" stopped. A few days later the cook's wife came running to ask for Sri Aurobindo's forgiveness: the cook lay dying in the hospital, struck by the "recoil" of his shower of stones. Sri Aurobindo answered, "For this he need not die!" And everything returned to normal. This incident is related in detail in The Life of Sri Aurobindo by A. B. Purani, 1964 Ed., pp. 282-83.
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1957-10-23 - The central motive of terrestrial existence - Evolution, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, in the outer appearances as you see them, at first you find the mineral kingdom with stones, earth, minerals which to us, in our outer consciousness, appear absolutely unconscious. Yet, behind this unconsciousness there is the life of the Spirit, the consciousness of the Spirit, which is completely hidden, which is as if asleepthough that is only an appearance and which works from within in order gradually to transform this Matter that is completely inert in appearance, so that its organisation may lend itself more and more to the manifestation of consciousness. And he says here that at first this veil of inert Matter is so total that, to a superficial glance, it is something that has neither life nor consciousness. When you pick up a stone and look at it with your ordinary eyes and consciousness, you say, It has no life, no consciousness. For one who knows how to see behind appearances, there is, hidden at the centre of this Matterat the centre of each atom of this Matter there is, hidden, the Supreme Divine Reality working from within, gradually, through the millennia, to change this inert Matter into something that is expressive enough to be able to reveal the Spirit within. Then you have the progression of the history of Life: how, from the stone there suddenly appeared a rudimentary life and through successive species a sort of organisation, that is, an organic substance capable of revealing life. But between the mineral and vegetable kingdoms there are transitional elements; one doesnt know whether they belong to the mineral or already to the vegetable kingdomwhen one studies this in detail one sees some strange species which belong neither here nor there, which are not quite this and yet not quite that. Then comes the development of the vegetable kingdom where naturally life appears, for there is growth, transformationa plant sprouts up, develops, growsand with the first phenomenon of life comes also the phenomenon of decomposition and disintegration which is relatively much more rapid than in the stone: a stone, if protected from the impact of other forces, can last apparently indefinitely, whereas the plant already follows a curve of growth, ascent and decline and decomposition but this with an extremely restricted consciousness. Those who have studied the vegetable kingdom in detail are well aware that there is a consciousness there. For instance, plants need sunlight to live the sun represents the active energy which makes them growso, if you put a plant in a place where there is no sunlight, you see it always growing up and up and up, trying, making an effort to reach the sunlight. In a virgin forest, for instance, where man does not interfere, there is this kind of struggle among all the plants which are always growing straight upwards in one way or another in their effort to catch the sunlight. It is very interesting. But even if you put a flower-pot in a fairly small courtyard surrounded by walls, where the sun doesnt come, a plant which normally is as high as this (gesture), becomes as tall as that: it stretches up and makes an effort to find the light. Therefore there is a consciousness, a will to live which is already manifesting. And little by little, with species that are more and more developed, you again reach another transitional passage between what is no longer entirely a plant and still not yet an animal. There are several species like that, which are very interesting. There are those plants which are carnivorous, plants like an open mouth: you throw a fly inside, snap! they swallow it. It is no longer quite a plant, it is not yet an animal. There are many plants of this kind.
Then you come to the animal. The first animals, yes, it is difficult to distinguish them from plants, there is almost no consciousness. But there you see all the animal species, you know them, dont you, right up to the higher animals which, indeed, are very conscious. They have their own completely independent will. They are very conscious and marvellously intelligent, like the elephant, for instance; you know all the stories about elephants and their wonderful intelligence. Therefore, it is already a very perceptible appearance of mind. And through this progressive development, we suddenly pass on to a species which has probably disappearedtraces of which have been foundan intermediate animal like a monkey or of the same line as the monkey something close to it, similar, if not the monkey as we know it but already an animal that walks on two legs. And from there we come to man. There is an entire beginning of the evolution of man; we cant say, can we, that he shows a brilliant intelligence, but there is already an action of the mind, a beginning of independence, of independent reaction to the environment and the forces of Nature. And so, in man there is the whole range, right up to the higher being capable of spiritual life.
1958-05-07 - The secret of Nature, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, Nature is not unconscious, but she has an appearance of unconsciousness. It began with the inconscience, but in the depths of the inconscience there was consciousness, and this consciousness is gradually developing.1 For instance, mineral nature, stones, earth, metals, water, air, all this seems to be quite unconscious, although if one observes closely And now science is discovering that this is only an appearance, that all this is only concentrated energy, and of course it is a conscious force which has produced all this. But apparently, when we see a rock, we dont think it is conscious, it does not give the impression of being conscious, it seems to be altogether unconscious.
It is the appearance that is inconscient. It becomes more and more conscious. Even in the mineral kingdom there are phenomena which reveal a hidden consciousness, like certain crystals, for instance. If you see with what precision, what exactitude and harmony they are formed, if you are in the least open, you are bound to feel that behind theres a consciousness at work, that this cannot be the result of unconscious chance.
1964 03 25, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The true perception of the physical worldtrees, people, stoneswhat do they look like to a supramental eye?
This is precisely what one cannot say! When you have the vision and the consciousness of the Order of Truth, of what is direct, the direct expression of the Truth, you immediately have an impression of something inexpressible, because all words belong to the other domain; all images, all comparisons, all expressions belong to the other domain.
1970 04 03, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
444To thy lover, O Lord, the railing of the world is wild honey and the pelting of stones by the mob is summer rain on the body. For is it not Thou that railest and peltest, and is it not Thou in the stones that strikest and hurtest me?
There is nothing to say. One can only bow before the perfection of the experience.
1.ac - The Priestess of Panormita, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
While the eyes rain stones for tears.
So I clung to the lips and laughed
1.anon - But little better, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
"I recognized the three stones blackened by fire at the
place where the kettle used to be placed at night, and the
1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI The Story of the Flood, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and attached heavy stones to his feet.
They dragged him down, to the Apsu they pulled him.
--
and cut the heavy stones from his feet,
letting the waves(?) throw him onto its shores.
1.anon - The Poem of Antar, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
with a yearning at the blackened stones,
keeping and standing firm in their own places.
1.anon - The Poem of Imru-Ul-Quais, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Nor a building, except those strengthened with heavy stones.
The mountain, at the first downpour of the rain, looked like a
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Probably we thought of such things as the grotesquely weathered stones
of the Garden of the Gods in Colorado, or the fantastically symmetrical
--
be preserved certain sacred stones forming part of the first sea-bottom
city, which were thrust up to light after long epochs in the course of
1f.lovecraft - Discarded Draft of, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
factory only a stones throw away. The patterns and traceries all
hinted of remote spaces and unimaginable abysses, and the aquatic
1f.lovecraft - Ex Oblivione, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
trunk, sometimes disclosing the mould-stained stones of buried temples.
And always the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown wall with
1f.lovecraft - Facts concerning the Late, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
exaggerated, yet the stones lying about proved that it was no mere
negro village. Unfortunately no carvings could be found, and the small
1f.lovecraft - Herbert West-Reanimator, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And
then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the
1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the fragments I brought up were like solid stones or bits of metal.
Finally even this splitting and chipping became impossible, and I had
1f.lovecraft - Memory, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
stones of ruined palaces, twining tightly about broken columns and
strange monoliths, and heaving up marble pavements laid by forgotten
--
Vast are the stones which sleep beneath coverlets of dank moss, and
mighty were the walls from which they fell. For all time did their
1f.lovecraft - Out of the Aeons, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
scattered rubble were massive stones of manifestly artificial shaping,
and a little examination disclosed the presence of some of that
1f.lovecraft - The Alchemist, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
pristine splendour; and the falling stones of the walls, the overgrown
vegetation in the parks, the dry and dusty moat, the ill-paved
--
beyond. Alone I buried him beneath the stones of the courtyard about
which he had loved to wander in life. Thus was I left to ponder on
--
existence. I heard the phial break harmlessly against the stones of the
passage as the tunic of the strange man caught fire and lit the horrid
1f.lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
body, nor did I continue to cast stones at it in order to complete the
extinction of its life. Instead, I ran at full speed in what was, as
1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
beset them, and now and then a pile of dank stones or fragment of a
rotting wall intensified by its hint of morbid habitation a depression
--
stones on islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time
before men came, but there were arts which could revive Them when the
--
picture in one of the old papers spread beneath the stones. It was the
Sydney Bulletin I have mentioned, for my friend has wide affiliations
--
down the slimy stones and hesitated floundering at the edge of the
water.
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
stones with a brick footwalk or causey in the middle. About this
time, also, he built the plain but excellent new house whose doorway is
--
of the old stones have long ago disappeared. The hole, a place as
large and deep as a grave, was empty; and did not coincide with any
--
sure when there is any Doubte of Whom you have. stones are all
changd now in Nine groundes out of 10. You are never sure till you
--
stones, and many times bruised his head against the frequent pillars,
but still he kept on. Then at last he slowly came to himself in the
--
remembered. No. 118, you say? But dont forget that stones are all
changed now in nine grounds out of ten. You are never sure till you
1f.lovecraft - The Colour out of Space, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
walked hurriedly by I saw the tumbled bricks and stones of an old
chimney and cellar on my right, and the yawning black maw of an
--
stones. The reservoir will soon be built now, and all those elder
secrets will be safe forever under watery fathoms. But even then I do
--
front yard; but the wise men answered that stones do not shrink. Its
heat lingered persistently, and Nahum declared it had glowed faintly in
--
too, and the wise men talked of the strange stones affinity for
silicon. It had acted quite unbelievably in that well-ordered
--
not any real ruins. Only the bricks of the chimney, the stones of the
cellar, some mineral and metallic litter here and there, and the rim of
1f.lovecraft - The Diary of Alonzo Typer, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
peculiar ring of ancient standing stones which the Iroquois always
regarded with fear and loathing. The origin and nature of the stones,
whose date, according to archaeological and climatological evidence,
--
standing stones; though there is reason to suppose that the noises
ceased about 1872, when the entire van der Heyl householdservants and
--
whose summit is a circle of great stones with another stone at the
centre. That, without question, is the vile primordial thing V told
--
queer abrupt hill with the circle of standing stones, which lies behind
the village and some distance north of the house. I had heard that
--
the summit with the standing stones bears only a curious growth of moss
and stunted grass. I climbed the hill and spent several hours there,
--
These stones, both in colour and in texture, resemble nothing I have
seen elsewhere. They are neither brown nor grey, but rather of a dirty
--
hereforgotten save by those who reared the stones on the hill, and by
those who later sought out this place and built this houseI cannot
--
can see them in the almost constant flashes. The great standing stones
loom up shockingly, and have a dull green luminosity that reveals them
1f.lovecraft - The Disinterment, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
cemetery, among whose moss-covered and crumbling stones I would seek
the oblivion I had desired. As I approached the moonlit spot the old
--
from that which I beheld amidst the crumbling, moss-crusted stones of
the hideous place.
1f.lovecraft - The Doom That Came to Sarnath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
stones of Sarnath, and at the beings of Ib they marvelled greatly. But
with their marvelling was mixed hate, for they thought it not meet that
--
jelly to the touch of stones and spears and arrows. So one day the
young warriors, the slingers and the spearmen and the bowmen, marched
--
of the labour how ever the stones were brought from afar, as they must
have been, since there is naught like them in all the land of Mnar or
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
great mossy stones in what was once a clearing tells of older and more
terrible dwellers long forgotten, and toward this spot he hastened. He
--
of stones, and Carter knew he was close to the zoog village. Renewing
his fluttering sound, he waited patiently; and was at length rewarded
--
hollow tree. He had avoided the great circle of stones, since he did
not care to speak with zoogs just now; but it appeared from the
--
grey stones with the names of his ancestors carved thereon, and with a
moss somewhat like Old Englands moss. For though Kuranes was a monarch
--
black gravel and small stones. Eventually Carter dismounted and led his
dubious yak; pulling very hard when the animal balked or stumbled, and
--
slope toward the north. stones kicked by its flying hooves fell over
the brink of the quarry and lost themselves in the dark without any
--
uncouth stones of a squat windowless building, around which a circle of
crude monoliths stood. In all this arrangement there was nothing human,
--
of the stealthy padding of shapeless paws on the stones behind him, or
of the silent wrigglings and crawlings which must be going on back
--
pillars and crumbling sphinx-crowned gates and titan stones and
monstrous winged lions against the sickly glow of those luminous night
--
stones. At last he reached the open space and picked his way among the
stunted trees and briers that had grown up therein. The gigantic lions
--
The ghouls made camp amongst the fallen stones of Sarkomand,
despatching a messenger for enough night-gaunts to serve them as
--
it was well-nigh blasphemous in its immensity. Well might its stones
have been quarried by nameless workmen in that horrible gulf rent out
1f.lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
dreadful name of Yog-Sothoth in the midst of a circle of stones with a
great book open in his arms before him. Dogs abhorred the boy, and he
--
hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen the
deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and
--
mountain-top a gaunt circle of stones could be glimpsed against the
sky. From the air of hushed fright at Osborns store they knew
--
altar-stone up there, and pull down all the rings of standing stones on
the other hills. Things like that brought down the beings those
1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
by faint flashes of filtered lightning, rose the damp ivied stones of
the deserted mansion, while somewhat nearer was the abandoned Dutch
1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
that his own footsteps, and the fall of stones that he dislodged,
struck on his ears with startling distinctness. It was at what he
1f.lovecraft - The Nameless City, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of
this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandmother of the eldest
--
ages. It must have been thus before the first stones of Memphis were
laid, and while the bricks of Babylon were yet unbaked. There is no
--
saw a storm of sand stirring among the antique stones though the sky
was clear and the vast reaches of the desert still. Then suddenly above
--
sighing sandstorm gathered behind me, blowing over the grey stones
though the moon was bright and most of the desert still.
--
stones clearly shaped into symbols by artificial means. The lowness of
the chiselled chamber was very strange, for I could hardly more than
--
altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and
inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have
--
crawled into it, finding more vague stones and symbols, though nothing
more definite than the other temple had contained. The room was just as
--
stones of the city, and when I glanced at the moon it seemed to quiver
as though mirrored in unquiet waters. I was more afraid than I could
--
upright, but saw that the stones and altars were as low as those in the
other temples. On the walls and roof I beheld for the first time some
--
the primal stones and rock-hewn temples in the nameless city, while the
very latest of the astounding maps in the frescoes shewed oceans and
1f.lovecraft - The Other Gods, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
stones. Later it grew cold and snowy; and Barzai and Atal often slipped
and fell as they hewed and plodded upward with staves and axes. Finally
1f.lovecraft - The Picture in the House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of
forgotten cities in Asia. The haunted wood and the desolate mountain
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
world, there remained only certain ruins of great stones in far places
and under the sea, and parts of the text of the frightful Pnakotic
--
The blackfellows have always been full of talk about great stones
with marks on them, and seem to have a terrible fear of such
--
tales of enormous underground huts of great stones, where passages
lead down and down, and where horrible things have happened. The
--
the stones. He was enormously interested, and became quite excited
when I shewed him my snapshots, saying that the stones and markings
were just like those of the masonry you had dreamed about and seen
--
saw at once from your drawings and descriptions that my stones are
certainly the kind you mean. You can appreciate this from the
--
Roughly, the stones lie at a point about 22 3 14 South Latitude,
125 0 39 East Longitude. The climate is tropical, and the desert
--
fantastic temporary hillocksexposing some traces of the elder stones
while it covered other traces. I was queerly anxious to have the
--
formed no clear idea of the stones location, and a late wind had
wholly altered the hillocks of shifting sand.
--
near places where the big marked stones are scattered. Close to four
the gale subsided as suddenly as it had begun, leaving the sand hills
--
half-buried stones and thus gaining my tattered and bedraggled aspect.
I must have slept longhence the hours of my absence.
--
miners concerning the desert and its carven stones.
And yet I plodded on as if to some eldritch rendezvousmore and more
--
thought of some of the possible contours of the lines of stones as seen
by my son from the air, and wondered why they seemed at once so ominous
--
unprecedented quality about these stones. Not only was the mere number
of them quite without parallel, but something in the sand-worn traces
--
familiarity of the great octagonal stones whose buckled surface still
held roughly together.
--
clamber over a mighty mound of stones reaching almost to the ragged,
grotesquely stalactited roof. It was all the ultimate apex of
--
I found the corridor again beyond the mountain of detritus and stones,
but after a short distance encountered a wholly choked place where the
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
earth-and-masonry wharf projecting beyond. Piles of moss-covered stones
near the water promised tolerable seats, and the scene was sheltered
--
stones. The air of death and desertion was ghoulish, and the smell of
fish almost insufferable; but I was resolved to let nothing deter me.
--
too big to knock daown. In some places they was little stones strewed
abaoutlike charmswith somethin on em like what ye call a swastika
1f.lovecraft - The Slaying of the Monster, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
move swiftly over the hot stones. But where is the dragon?? whispered
onefearfully and hoping it would not accept the query as an
1f.lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling
tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapours. Heard it well up
1f.lovecraft - The Terrible Old Man, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
stones, oddly grouped and painted so that they resemble the idols in
some obscure Eastern temple. This collection frightens away most of the
--
they did not like the way the moon shone down upon the painted stones
through the budding branches of the gnarled trees, they had more
1f.lovecraft - The Thing on the Doorstep, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
certain Indian relics in the north woodsstanding stones, and all
thatwhich mean a good deal in folklore, and Asenath and I are
1f.lovecraft - The Tomb, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
about the water-worn stones.
I shall never forget the afternoon when first I stumbled upon the
1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and barren patches, and curious circles of stones, with the grass
around them worn away, which did not seem to have been placed or
--
of standing stones on the summit of a wild hill. Around the cryptic
circle the grass was very much beaten down and worn away, though I
--
which might justly be considered a notice of the black stones presence
on No. 5508 come through the office for anyone. Naturally Akeley joined
--
stretched to the road and flaunted a border of whitewashed stones, rose
a white, two-and-a-half-story house of unusual size and elegance for
1f.lovecraft - Under the Pyramids, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
himself built with the stones of forgotten pyramids. It was sunset when
we scaled that cliff, circled the modern mosque of Mohammed Ali, and
--
great stones, but the others retaining here and there the neatly fitted
covering which had made them smooth and finished in their day.
1.fs - The Walk, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Sacred stones! 'Tis from ye that proceed humanity's founders,
Morals and arts ye sent forth, e'en to the ocean's far isles.
1.fs - To My Friends, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Countless stones in witness forth would come
From the deepest entrails of the earth.
1.gmh - The Alchemist In The City, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
And trees of terebinth and stones
And silence and a gulf of air.
1.hs - I Know The Way You Can Get, #Hafiz - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And throws sharp stones and spears into the innocent and into ones self.
O I know the way you can get if you have not been drinking Love:
1.jk - Endymion - Book I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
The nether sides of mossy stones and rock,
'Mong which it gurgled blythe adieus, to mock
1.jk - Hyperion. Book II, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor,
When the chill rain begins at shut of eve,
1.jk - Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Here are the craggy stones beneath my feet,--
Thus much I know that, a poor witless elf,
--
"From Fort William Keats mounted Ben Nevis. When on the summit a cloud enveloped him, and sitting on the stones, as it slowly wafted away, showing a tremendous precipice into the valley below, he wrote these lines."
The late Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote to me of this sonnet as "perhaps the most thoughtful of Keats, and greatly superior in execution to the draft on the Ailsa Crag." It was certainly by no means an unworthy finish to the tour, though I must confess to finding a little wand of spontaneity -- not to be wondered at when we consider that Keats, though writing so bravely to his friends, had undertaken a task far beyond his physical strength, and probably one which laid the foundations of his mortal illness. He speaks to Tom lightly enough of "a slight sore throat;" but in a letter which Brown wrote from Inverness on the 7th of August, he says,
1.jk - The Eve Of St. Agnes, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Follow me, child, or else these stones will be thy bier."
XIII.
--
The chains lie silent on the footworn stones,--
The key turns, and the door upon its hinges groans.
1.jlb - Plainness, #Borges - Poems, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
like stones of the road, like trees.
[Norman Thomas di Giovanni]
1.jlb - Simplicity, #Borges - Poems, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
like stones and trees.
1.jwvg - The Exchange, #Goethe - Poems, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
THE stones in the streamlet I make my bright pillow,
And open my arms to the swift-rolling billow,
1.jwvg - The Wanderer, #Goethe - Poems, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Not by thee these stones were join'd,
Nature, who so freely scatterest!
--
At these stones, why
Start'st thou, stranger?
Many stones are lying yonder
Round my cottage.
--
Of tiles and stones from out the ruins.
'Tis here we dwell.
1.kbr - Dohas (Couplets) I (with translation), #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
[Looking at the grinding stones, Kabir laments
In the duel of wheels, nothing stays intact.]
1.kbr - Looking At The Grinding Stones - Dohas (Couplets) I, #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
object:1.kbr - Looking At The Grinding stones - Dohas (Couplets) I
author class:Kabir
--
Looking at the grinding stones, Kabir laments
In the duel of wheels, nothing stays intact.
1.lb - Remembering the Springs at Chih-chou, #Li Bai - Poems, #Li Bai, #Poetry
White drowned stones, then free again.
Wistaria-blossom on quivering branches.
1.lb - Resentment Near the Jade Stairs, #Li Bai - Poems, #Li Bai, #Poetry
Sunlight streams on the river stones.
From high above, the river steadily plunges
1.lovecraft - Ex Oblivione, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Many times I walked through that valley, and longer and longer would I pause in the spectral half-light where the giant trees squirmed and twisted grotesquely, and the grey ground stretched damply from trunk to trunk, sometimes disclosing the mould-stained stones of buried temples. And always the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown wall with the little gate of bronze therein.
After awhile, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their greyness and sameness, I would often drift in opiate peace through the valley and the shadowy groves, and wonder how I might seize them for my eternal dwelling-place, so that I need no more crawl back to a dull world stript of interest and new colours. And as I looked upon the little gate in the mighty wall, I felt that beyond it lay a dream-country from which, once it was entered, there would be no return.
1.lovecraft - Halloween In A Suburb, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Of rows where thick rise the stones and brick,
Shall some day be with the rest,
1.lovecraft - The House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The stones of the walks
Are encrusted and wet,
1.mb - blowing stones, #Basho - Poems, #Masho Basho, #unset
object:1.mb - blowing stones
author class:Matsuo Basho
--
blowing stones
along the road on Mount Asama,
1.ms - Temple of Eternal Light, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by W. S. Merwin Original Language Japanese The mountain range the stones in the water all are strange and rare The beautiful landscape as we know belongs to those who are like it The upper worlds the lower worlds originally are one thing There is not a bit of dust there is only this still and full perfect enlightenment [2206.jpg] -- from Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki - Poems and Sermons, Translated by W. S. Merwin / Translated by Soiku Shigematsu <
1.pbs - Alastor - or, the Spirit of Solitude, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Dark and profound. Now on the polished stones
It danced, like childhood laughing as it went;
--
'Mid toppling stones, black gulfs and yawning caves,
Whose windings gave ten thousand various tongues
--
The fissured stones with its entwining arms,
And did embower with leaves forever green
1.pbs - Arethusa, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Over heaps of unvalued stones;
Through the dim beams
1.pbs - A Vision Of The Sea, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Like the stones of a temple ere earthquake has passed,
Like the dust of its fall. on the whirlwind are cast;
1.pbs - Fragments Of An Unfinished Drama, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
With simple lichens, and old hoary stones,
On to the margin of the glassy pool,
1.pbs - Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
On the margin of the stones,
Where a few grey rushes stand,
1.pbs - Lines Written During The Castlereagh Administration, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Her sons are as stones in the way--
They are masses of senseless clay--
1.pbs - Marenghi, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Rooted in stones, a broad and pointed shade,--
XV.
1.pbs - Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
With dust and stones.
Enter Mammon.
1.pbs - Prometheus Unbound, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Valueless stones, and unimagined gems,
And caverns on crystalline columns poised
1.pbs - Queen Mab - Part IX., #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Across that desert where their stones survived
The name of him whose pride had heaped them there.
--
Year after year their stones upon the field,
Wakening a lonely echo; and the leaves
1.pbs - Revenge, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
And must dig their remains from beneath the cold stones.
'For the spirit of Conrad there meets me this night,
1.pbs - Scenes From The Faust Of Goethe, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Through the mossy sods and stones,
Stream and streamlet hurry down
1.pbs - The Cenci - A Tragedy In Five Acts, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
The stones you tread on to deliver you:
For men shall there be none but those who dare
--
On stones and trees. My wife and children sleep:
They are now living in unmeaning dreams:
1.poe - The Coliseum, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The swift and silent lizard of the stones!
But stay! these walls- these ivy-clad arcades-
--
These stones- alas! these grey stones- are they all-
All of the famed, and the colossal left
--
We are not impotent- we pallid stones.
Not all our power is gone- not all our fame-
1.rb - Among The Rocks, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Listening the while, where on the heap of stones
The white breast of the sea-lark twitters sweet.
1.rb - Bishop Blougram's Apology, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Bid the street's stones be bread and they are bread;
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part I - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Gay set with twinkling stonesand to the East,
Where these must be displayed!
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part IV - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
On rugged stones strewn here and there, but piled
In order once: then followsmark what follows!
1.rb - Pauline, A Fragment of a Question, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
And old grey stones lie making eddies there,
The wild-mice cross them dry-shod. Deeper in!
1.rb - The Englishman In Italy, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
'Mid the rock-chasms and piles of loose stones
Like the loose broken teeth
1.rmr - Rememberance, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
the awakening of dormant stones,
depths that would reveal you to yourself.
1.rt - Fireflies, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
men bring stones.
I touch God in my song
--
Pride engraves his frowns in stones,
loe offers her surrender in flowers.
1.rt - Gitanjali, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put of thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever.
1.rt - Leave This, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.
He is with them in sun and in shower,
1.rt - Sleep-Stealer, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
scowling stones, trickles a tiny stream.
I must search in the drowsy shade of the bakula grove, where
1.rwe - A Nations Strength, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.
1.rwe - Monadnoc, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
Let not unto the stones the day
Her lily and rose, her sea and land display;
1.rwe - The River Note, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
These trees and stones are audible to me,
These idle flowers, that tremble in the wind,
1.rwe - The Titmouse, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
1.rwe - Woodnotes, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
All spheres, all stones, his helpers be;
He shall meet the speeding year,
--
O mortal! thy ears are stones;
These echoes are laden with tones
1.sca - When You have loved, You shall be chaste, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM Original Language Italian When You have loved, You shall be chaste; when You have touched, You shall become pure; when You have accepted, You shall be a virgin. Whose power is stronger, Whose generosity is more abundant, Whose appearance more beautiful, Whose love more tender, Whose courtesy more gracious. In Whose embrace You are already caught up; Who has adorned Your breast with precious stones and has placed priceless pearls in Your ears and has surrounded You with sparkling gems as though blossoms of springtime and placed on Your head a golden crown as a sign of Your holiness. [1495.jpg] -- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM <
1.shvb - O ignee Spiritus - Hymn to the Holy Spirit, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Barbara Newman Original Language Latin Praise to you Spirit of fire! to you who sound the timbrel and the lyre. Your music sets our minds ablaze! The strength of our souls awaits your coming in the tent of meeting. There the mounting will gives the soul its savor and desire is its lantern. Insight invokes you in a cry full of sweetness, while reason builds you temples as she labors at her golden crafts. But sword in hand you stand poised to prune shoots of the poisoned apple -- scions of the darkest murder -- when mist overshadows the will. Adrift in desires the soul is spinning everywhere. But the mind is a bond to bind will and desire. When the heart yearns to look the Evil One in the eye, to stare down the jaws of iniquity, swiftly you burn it in consuming fire. Such is your wish. And when reason doing ill falls from her place, you restrain and constrain her as you will in the flow of experience until she obeys you. And when the Evil One brandishes his sword against you, you break it in his own heart. For so you did to the first lost angel, tumbling the tower of his arrogance to hell. And there you built a second tower -- traitors and sinners its stones. In repentance they confessed all their crafts. So all beings that live by you praise your outpouring like a priceless salve upon festering sores, upon fractured limbs. You convert them into priceless gems! Now gather us all to yourself and in your mercy guide us into the paths of justice. [1826.jpg] -- from Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celstium revelationum, by Hildegard of Bingen / Translated by Barbara Newman <
1.shvb - O ignis Spiritus Paracliti, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Latin O Holy Spirit of Fire, life in the life of all life, holy are you, enlivening all things. Holy are you, a healing balm to the broken. Holy are you, washing blistered wounds. O Holy Breath, O Fire of Life, O Sweetness in my breast infusing my heart with the fine scent of truth. O Pure Fountain through which we know God unites strangers and gathers the lost. O Heart's Shield, guarding life and hope, joining the many members into one body; Belt of Truth, wrap them in beauty. Protect those ensnared by the enemy, and free the worthy from their fetters. O Great Way that runs through all, from the heights, across the earth, and in the depths, you encompass all and unify all. From you the clouds stream and the ether rises; from your stones precious water pours, springs well and birth waterways, and the earth sweats green with life. And eternally do you bring forth knowledge by the breath of wisdom. All praise to you, you who are the song of praise and the joy of life, you who are hope and the greatest treasure, bestowing the gift of Light. <
1.tm - In Silence, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Original Language English Be still. Listen to the stones of the wall. Be silent, they try to speak your name. Listen to the living walls. Who are you? Who are you? Whose silence are you? Who (be quiet) are you (as these stones are quiet). Do not think of what you are still less of what you may one day be. Rather be what you are (but who?) be the unthinkable one you do not know. O be still, while you are still alive, and all things live around you speaking (I do not hear) to your own being, speaking by the unknown that is in you and in themselves. I will try, like them to be my own silence: and this is difficult. The whole world is secretly on fire. The stones burn, even the stones they burn me. How can a man be still or listen to all things burning? How can he dare to sit with them when all their silence is on fire? [bk1sm.gif] -- from The Strange Islands: Poems by Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton <
1.wby - Adams Curse, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
1.wby - Baile And Aillinn, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
They have heaped the stones above his grave
In Muirthemne, and over it
1.wby - He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved, And Longs For The End Of The World, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
I have been in the Path of stones and the Wood of Thorns,
For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
1.wby - Meditations In Time Of Civil War, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
These stones remain their monument and mine.
The Road at My Door
1.wby - Now as at all times, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of Silver hovering side by side,
1.wby - Paudeen, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light;
Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind
1.wby - Red Hanrahans Song About Ireland, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
And thrown the thunder on the stones for all that Maeve can say.
Angers that are like noisy clouds have set our hearts abeat;
1.wby - The Ballad Of Moll Magee, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
There, don't fling stones at me
Because I mutter as I go;
--
Ye won't fling stones at me;
But gather with your shinin' looks
1.wby - The Fairy Pendant, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Scene: A circle of Druidic stones
First Fairy: Afar from our lawn and our levee,
1.wby - The Hour Before Dawn, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Of grey stones and a rocky ledge
Reminded him that he could make.
If he but shifted a few stones,
A shelter till the daylight broke.
But while he fumbled with the stones
They toppled over; "Were it not
--
Before his eyes, where stones had been,
A dark deep hollow in the rock.
1.wby - The Magi, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of Silver hovering side by side,
1.wby - The Tower, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
And the proud stones of Greece,
Poet's imaginings
1.wby - The Wanderings Of Oisin - Book II, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Go cast your body on the stones and pray,
For He has wrought midnight and dawn and day.
1.wby - The Wanderings Of Oisin - Book III, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
S. Patrick. Where the flesh of the footsole clingeth on the burning stones is their place;
Where the demons whip them with wires on the burning stones of wide Hell,
Watching the blessed ones move far off, and the smile on God's face,
--
We will tear out the flaming stones, and batter the gateway of brass
And enter, and none sayeth 'No' when there enters the strongly armed guest;
--
S. Patrick. On the flaming stones, without refuge, the limbs of the Fenians are lost;
None war on the masters of Hell, who could break up the world in their rage;
--
I throw down the chain of small stones! when life in my body has ceased,
I will go to Caoilte, and Conan, and Bran, Sceolan, Lomair,
1.wby - The Wild Swans At Coole, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty Swans.
1.whitman - Drum-Taps, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
rumble lightly over the stones;
(Silent cannonssoon to cease your silence!
1.whitman - Poems Of Joys, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
lobster-pots, where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know
the buoys
1.whitman - Salut Au Monde, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I see them raised high with stones, by the marge of restless oceans,
that the dead men's spirits, when they wearied of their quiet
1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
--
The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,
--
I fall on the weeds and stones,
The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- V, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- VIII, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XXXIII, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I fall on the weeds and stones,
The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
1.whitman - Song Of The Open Road, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
From all that has been near you, I believe you have imparted to
1.whitman - These, I, Singing In Spring, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Now by the post-and-rail fences, where the old stones thrown there,
pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones, and
partly cover themBeyond these I pass,)
1.ww - 1- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And smote off his head on the stones of the porch!
Look down among them, if you dare;
1.ww - 5 - I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, #Song of Myself, #unset, #Zen
Original Language English I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other. Loaf with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips, and gently turned over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stripped heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love, And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields, And brown ants in the little wells beneath them, And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heaped stones, elder, mullein and pokeweed. [2333.jpg] -- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman <
1.ww - 8 - The little one sleeps in its cradle, #Song of Myself, #unset, #Zen
Original Language English The little one sleeps in its cradle, I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand. The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill, I peeringly view them from the top. The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom, I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen. The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot soles, talk of the promenaders, The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor, The snow sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snowballs, The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of roused mobs, The flap of the curtained litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital, The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall, The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the center of the crowd, The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes, What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall sunstruck or in fits, What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes, What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrained by decorum, Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips, I mind them or the show or resonance of them -- I come and I depart. [2333.jpg] -- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman <
1.ww - A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags,, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
object:1.ww - A Narrow Girdle Of Rough stones And Crags,
author class:William Wordsworth
--
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags,
A rude and natural causeway, interposed
1.ww - A Slumber did my Spirit Seal, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Composed whilst on his travels in in Germany.
1.ww - Book Fifth-Books, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
On the hot stones, and in the glaring sun,
And there have read, devouring as I read,
1.ww - Book Seventh [Residence in London], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Upon the smooth flint stones: the Nurse is here,
The Bachelor, that loves to sun himself,
1.ww - Book Third [Residence at Cambridge], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Even the loose stones that cover the highway,
I gave a moral life: I saw them feel,
1.ww - Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Muttering along the stones, a busy noise
By day, a quiet sound in silent night;
1.ww - Daffodils, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing.
This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. We rested again and again. The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea'.
1.ww - Fidelity, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
O'er rocks and stones, following the Dog
As quickly as he may;
1.ww - For The Spot Where The Hermitage Stood On St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater., #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Wilt thou behold this shapeless heap of stones,
The desolate ruins of St. Herbert's Cell.
1.ww - Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The stones, as if to cover him from day,
Rolled at his back along the living plain;
1.ww - Hart-Leap Well, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
You see the stones, the fountain, and the stream;
But as to the great Lodge! you might as well
--
Till trees, and stones, and fountain, all are gone."
"Grey-headed Shepherd, thou hast spoken well;
1.ww - Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Stranger! this hillock of mis-shapen stones
Is not a Ruin spared or made by time,
1.ww - Lines Left Upon The Seat Of A Yew-Tree,, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
That piled these stones and with the mossy sod
First covered, and here taught this aged Tree
1.ww - Living in the Mountain on an Autumn Night, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Willis Barnstone Original Language Chinese After fresh rain on the empty mountain comes evening and the cold of autumn. The full moon burns through the pines. A brook transparent over the stones. Bamboo trees crackle as washerwomen go home and lotus flowers sway as fisherman's boat slips downriver. Though the fresh smell of grass is gone, a prince is happy in these hills. [1508.jpg] -- from To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light, Translated by Willis Barnstone <
1.ww - Michael- A Pastoral Poem, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
With a few sheep, with rocks and stones, and kites
That overhead are sailing in the sky.
--
Appears a straggling heap of unhewn stones!
And to that simple object appertains
--
A heap of stones, which by the streamlet's edge
Lay thrown together, ready for the work.
--
Then, pointing to the stones near which they stood,
Thus, after a short silence, he resumed:
1.ww - Nutting, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Andwith my cheek on one of those green stones
That, fleeced with moss, under the shady trees,
--
Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
And on the vacant air. Then up I rose,
1.ww - Rural Architecture, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
They built him of stones gathered up as they lay:
They built him and christened him all in one day,
1.ww - The Excursion- II- Book First- The Wanderer, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The corner stones, on either side the porch,
With dull red stains discoloured, and stuck o'er
1.ww - The Excursion- IV- Book Third- Despondency, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Fearless of winds and waves. Three several stones
Stood near, of smaller size, and not unlike
--
Among these rocks and stones, methinks, I see
More than the heedless impress that belongs
1.ww - The Excursion- V- Book Fouth- Despondency Corrected, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
By nature's care from wreck of scattered stones,
And from encroachment of encircling heath:
1.ww - The Excursion- VII- Book Sixth- The Churchyard Among the Mountains, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
From interruption of sepulchral stones,
And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf
--
And with the flowers are intermingled stones
Sparry and bright, rough scatterings of the hills.
1.ww - The Excursion- X- Book Ninth- Discourse of the Wanderer, and an Evening Visit to the Lake, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And choice of moss-clad stones, whereon we couched
Or sate reclined; admiring quietly
1.ww - The Waggoner - Canto First, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And now have reached that pile of stones,
Heaped over brave King Dunmail's bones;
--
Around the stones of Dunmail-raise!
The Sailor gathers up his bed,
20.04 - Act II: The Play on Earth, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In me stones, flowers, animals,
children, lovers, stars
2.01 - THE CHILD WITH THE MIRROR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
My wild wisdom became pregnant on lonely mountains; on rough stones she gave birth to her young, her
youngest. Now she runs foolishly through the harsh
2.01 - The Road of Trials, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
The small lapis lazuli stones of her neck were removed.
"What, pray, is this?"
--
The sparkling stones of her breast were removed.
"What, pray, is this?"
2.01 - The Temple, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
1:THE Temple represents the external Universe. The Magician must take it as he finds it, so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, Liber VII, vi, 2: "We made us a Temple of stones in the shape of the Universe, even as thou didst wear openly and I concealed." This shape is the Vesica Piscis; but it is only the greatest of the Magicians who can thus fashion the Temple. There may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the Magician to reincarnate in a suitable body.
2.02 - The Ishavasyopanishad with a commentary in English, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
world is not a place with hills & trees & stones, but a condition
of the Jivatman, all the rest being only circumstances & details
2.02 - The Status of Knowledge, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is difficult for the modern mind to understand how we can do more than conceive intellectually of the Self or of God; but it may borrow some shadow of this vision, experience and becoming from that inner awakening to Nature which a great English poet has made a reality to the European imagination. If we read the poems in which Wordsworth expressed his realisation of Nature, we may acquire some distant idea of what realisation is. For, first, we see that he had the vision of something in the world which is the very Self of all things that it contains, a conscious force and presence other than its forms, yet cause of its forms and manifested in them. We perceive that he had not only the vision of this and the joy and peace and universality which its presence brings, but the very sense of it, mental, aesthetic, vital, physical; not only this sense and vision of it in its own being but in the nearest flower and simplest man and the immobile rock; and, finally, that he even occasionally attained to that unity, that becoming the object of his dedication, one phase of which is powerfully and profoundly expressed in the poem "A slumber did my spirit seal," where he describes himself as become one in his being with earth, "rolled round in its diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees." Exalt this realisation to a profounder Self than physical Nature and we have the elements of the Yogic knowledge. But all this experience is only the vestibule to that suprasensuous, supramental realisation of the Transcendent who is beyond all His aspects, and the final summit of knowledge can only be attained by entering into the superconscient and there merging all other experience into a supernal unity with the Ineffable. That is the culmination of all divine knowing; that also is the source of all divine delight and divine living.
That status of knowledge is then the aim of this path and indeed of all paths when pursued to their end, to which intellectual discrimination and conception and all concentration and psychological self-knowledge and all seeking by the heart through love and by the senses through beauty and by the will through power and works and by the soul through peace and joy are only keys, avenues, first approaches and beginnings of the ascent which we have to use and to follow till the wide and infinite levels are attained and the divine doors swing open into the infinite Light.
2.03 - Atomic Forms And Their Combinations, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Are diamond stones, despisers of all blows,
And stalwart flint and strength of solid iron,
2.03 - Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
The Hindu is no idolater; he does not worship stocks or stones,
the tree as tree or the stone as stone or the idol as a material
--
not a place with hills, trees and stones, but a condition of the
Jivatman, all the rest being only circumstances and details of a
--
hea then who worships stocks and stones has come nearer to
the truth of things, than the enlightened professor of "rational"
2.03 - On Medicine, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: But in that case the Supramental descent can change stones and metals.
Sri Aurobindo: In stones and metals there is no mind which requires to be changed. It is not so difficult to effect a change in them. So if the Supermind descends into you it will do. There is no need to solve all problems.
Disciple: But it must take place in you first. If it happens what changes will it bring about?
2.03 - THE ENIGMA OF BOLOGNA, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Likewise Marchos205 said, It is time for this child to be born, and he related the following parable: We shall build him a house, which is called the grave of Sihoka. He [or Mariyah]206 said, There is an earth207 near us, which is called tormos,208 where there are serpents [or witches]209 that eat the darkness210 out of the burning stones, and on these stones they drink the blood of black goats.211 While they remain in the darkness, they conceive in the baths212 and give birth213 in the air, and they stride on the sea,214 and they inhabit vaults and sepulchres, and the serpent fights with the male, and the male continues forty nights in the grave, and forty nights in the little house.215
[78] The Latin translation serpent for witch is connected with the widespread primitive idea that the spirits of the dead are snakes. This fits in with the offering of goats blood, since the sacrifice of black animals to the chthonic numina was quite customary. In the Arabic text the witches refer to the female demons of the desert, the jinn. The grave-haunting numen is likewise a widespread idea that has lingered on into Christian legend. I have even met it in the dream of a twenty-two-year-old theological student, and I give this dream again so that those of my readers who are familiar with the language of dreams will be able to see the full scope of the problem we are discussing.216
2.03 - THE MASTER IN VARIOUS MOODS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
He continued: "You cannot make a pot without first carefully preparing the clay. The pot will crack if the clay contains particles of sand or stone. That is why the potter first prepares the clay by removing the sand and stones.
"If a mirror is covered with dirt, it won't reflect one's face. A man cannot realize his true Self unless his heart is pure. You will find guilelessness wherever God incarnates Himself as man. Nandaghosh, Daaratha, Vasudeva -all of them were guileless.
2.05 - Aspects of Sadhana, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The most commonplace circumstances, the events of everyday life, the most apparently insignificant people and things all belong to one or other of these three kinds of examiners. In this vast and complex organisation of tests, those events that are generally considered the most important in life are the easiest examinations to undergo, because they find you ready and on your guard. It is easier to stumble over the little stones in your path, because they attract no attention.
42
2.05 - ON THE VIRTUOUS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
creaking like carts carrying stones downhill: they talk
much of dignity and virtue-they call their brake virtue.
2.05 - VISIT TO THE SINTHI BRAMO SAMAJ, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
How many pearls and precious stones
Are scattered all about
2.07 - ON THE TARANTULAS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
piled his thoughts to the sky in these stones-he, like
the wisest, knew the secret of all life. That struggle and
2.08 - AT THE STAR THEATRE (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "No, work is good. When the ground is well cultivated and cleared of stones and pebbles, whatever you plant will grow. But one should work without any personal motive.
"There are two types of paramahamsas: the Jnni and the premi. The Jnni is self-centred; he feels that it is enough to have Knowledge for his own self. The premi, like Sukadeva, after attaining his own realization, teaches men. Some eat mangoes and wipe off the traces from their mouths; but some share their mangoes with others. Spades and baskets are needed to dig a well. After the digging is over, some throw the spades and baskets into the well. But others put them away; for a neighbour may use them.
--
"How can one who is eternally perfect be afraid of the world? He knows how to play his game. An eternally perfect soul can even lead a worldly life if he desires. There are people who can fence with two swords at the same time; they are such expert fencers that, if stones are thrown at them, the stones hit the swords and come back."
Yoga and God-vision
2.09 - The Pantacle, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
19:These stones are the simple impressions or expressions; not one may be foregone.
20:Do not refuse anything merely because you know that it is the cup of poison offered by your enemy; drink it with confidence; it is he that will fall dead!
2.0 - THE ANTICHRIST, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
no two stones were left standing one on the other,--until even the
Teutons and other clodhoppers were able to become master of it The
21.03 - The Double Ladder, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now this process of devolution has gone on; from the supreme Consciousness, it has entered into the Supramental, then into the Overmental and then into the mental regions, and peopled all of them with gods and divinities. In the lower regions - lower, that is to say, denser, obscurer, and more ignorant forms of consciousness - they have become smaller gods, dwarf gods. Perhaps to these also the Vedic Rishis offered their namasand stoma,their obeisance as blakhilyagods. The gods have come down farther still and proliferated liberally in the earth's atmosphere. The gods and goddesses of the woodland, of rivers and springs, of mounts and hills, form a whole world of mythology - they are not mere creations of fancy or abstract imagination. The totems of the primitive people continue the same story of proliferation into still darker and denser regions of being and consciousness that may rather be called non-being and unconsciousness. And even, I may say if I am allowed to, the world of rocks and stones is not excluded: they too in their solid material dead body enshrine something of the god in devolution.
There is no question here of any human intervention - of the infusion of man's will and thought-formation. That is another subject altogether. Here I am speaking of the inherent intrinsic spiritual status or even divinity of a material body - Its dravya-guna- that which a lingam or a Kaaba possesses.
2.13 - THE MASTER AT THE HOUSES OF BALARM AND GIRISH, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "You don't know. There are people who repeat Rma's name with their tongues but hide stones under their arms to throw at others."
NARENDRA: "I don't agree with you, sir. I asked him about the things people complain of. He denied them."
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MASTER: "Everything is possible for God. It is He who casts the spell. The magician swallows the knife and takes it out again; he swallows stones and bricks."
A DEVOTEE: "The Brahmos say that a man should perform his worldly duties. He must not renounce them."
2.15 - The Lamen, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
1:THE Breastplate or Lamen of the Magician is a very elaborate and important symbol. In the Jewish system we read that the High Priest was to wear a plate with twelve stones, for the twelve tribes of Israel (with all their correspondences), and in this plate were kept the Urim and Thummim.1
2:The modern Lamen, is, however, a simple plate which (being worn over the heart) symbolises Tiphereth, and it should therefore be a harmony of all the other symbols in one. It connects naturally by its shape with the Circle and the Pantacle; but it is not sufficient to repeat the design of either.
2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: Theoretically it should be possible, though Ihave known no case of the same. After the experience we had of the stone-throwing in the Guest House here, Ibelieve if the stones could be materialised, why not a human being?
Disciple: The Egyptians preserved the human body after death, with a belief that the soul would return to it after some years. Paul Brunton claims to have met some spirit hoary with age on the hill near the pyramids.
2.20 - ON REDEMPTION, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
he moves stones out of wrath and displeasure, and he
wreaks revenge on whatever does not feel wrath and
2.3.07 - The Mother in Visions, Dreams and Experiences, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The bodies I wrote about this morning were like shadowy pictures, not distinct, and seemed to be like stones, not white in colour but black. Why was that?
It was probably the subconscient physical that you saw - that would explain the shadowy character; the stone indicates the
2.3.08 - The Physical Consciousness, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
- as experienced by the outward sense mind and senses. But that is not the whole of Matter. There is a subtle physical also with a subtler consciousness in it which can (for instance) go to a distance from the body and yet feel and be aware of things in a not merely mental or vital way. As for mind and vital they are everywhere - there is an obscure mind and life even in the cells of the body, the stones or in molecules and atoms.
It [the subtle physical] is difficult to realise without definite experience, e.g. as when light or ananda or force come into the body and one feels it working as if in the cells, yet with a little attention it becomes clear that it is not the material cells, but something more subtle that feels it.
2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3. Men have pressed out for you by the stones this rapturous
honey-wine - to this awake, O Indra, O Fire.
--
11. Close by are the stones and the honey-wine is poured in the lotus in the discharging of the well.
12. O Ray-Cows, come to the well; here is the great wine-jar of the sacrifice, here are both the golden handles.
3.00.2 - Introduction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
left, a heap of coloured and polished (precious) stones surmounted by a
silver serpent, winged and crowned. In the middle of the picture there
3.02 - Nature And Composition Of The Mind, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
A pile of stones or spiny ears of wheat
It can't at all. Thus, in so far as bodies
3.02 - ON THE VISION AND THE RIDDLE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
ascended defiantly through stones, malicious, lonely, not
cheered by herb or shrub-a mountain path crunched
3.02 - SOL, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[115] For Dorn, then, the spark of divine fire implanted in man becomes what Goe the in his original version of Faust called Fausts entelechy, which was carried away by the angels. This supreme treasure the animal man understandeth not. . . . We are made like stones, having eyes and seeing not.33
[116] After all this, we can say that the alchemical Sol, as a certain luminosity (quaedam luminositas), is in many respects equal to the lumen naturae. This was the real source of illumination in alchemy, and from alchemy Paracelsus borrowed this same source in order to illuminate the art of medicine. Thus the concept of Sol has not a little to do with the growth of modern consciousness, which in the last two centuries has relied more and more on the observation and experience of natural objects. Sol therefore seems to denote an important psychological fact. Consequently, it is well worth while delineating its peculiarities in greater detail on the basis of the very extensive literature.
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On earth these stones are dead, and they do nothing unless the activity of man is applied to them. [Consider]47 the profound analogy of the gold: the aethereal heaven was locked to all men, so that all men had to descend into the underworld, where they were imprisoned for ever. But Christ Jesus unlocked the gate of the heavenly Olympus and threw open the realm of Pluto, that the souls might be freed, when the Virgin Mary, with the cooperation of the Holy Ghost in an unutterable mystery and deepest sacrament, conceived in her virgin womb that which was most excellent in heaven and upon earth, and finally bore for us the Redeemer of the whole world, who by his overflowing goodness shall save all who are given up to sin, if only the sinner shall turn to him. But the Virgin remained incorrupt and inviolate: therefore not without good reason is Mercurius made equal [aequiparatur] to the most glorious and worshipful Virgin Mary.48
It is evident from this that the coniunctio of Sol and Mercurius is a hierosgamos, with Mercurius playing the role of bride. If one does not find this analogy too offensive, one may ask oneself with equanimity whether the arcanum of the opus alchymicum, as understood by the old masters, may not indeed be considered an equivalent of the dogmatic mystery. For the psychologist the decisive thing here is the subjective attitude of the alchemist. As I have shown in Psychology and Alchemy, such a profession of faith is by no means unique.49
3.02 - THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
scientific. Sinanthropus already worked stones and made fire.
Until disproved, those two accomplishments must be considered
--
stone implements, mill stones and shards, found under recent
humus or sand deposits litter the old earth of the continents.
--- Overview of noun stone
The noun stone has 13 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (16) rock, stone ::: (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me")
2. (9) stone ::: (building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site")
3. (8) rock, stone ::: (material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries")
4. gem, gemstone, stone ::: (a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones")
5. stone ::: (an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone")
6. stone, pit, endocarp ::: (the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking")
7. Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone ::: (United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946))
8. Stone, Oliver Stone ::: (United States filmmaker (born in 1946))
9. Stone, Lucy Stone ::: (United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893))
10. Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone ::: (United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989))
11. Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone ::: (United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946))
12. Stone, Edward Durell Stone ::: (United States architect (1902-1978))
13. stone ::: (a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone")
--- Overview of verb stone
The verb stone has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) stone, lapidate ::: (kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock")
2. pit, stone ::: (remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stone
13 senses of stone
Sense 1
rock, stone
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
stone
=> building material
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
rock, stone
=> material, stuff
=> substance
=> matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> part, portion, component part, component, constituent
=> relation
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
gem, gemstone, stone
=> crystal
=> solid
=> matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
stone
=> avoirdupois unit
=> mass unit
=> unit of measurement, unit
=> definite quantity
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
stone, pit, endocarp
=> pericarp, seed vessel
=> covering, natural covering, cover
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 7
Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
INSTANCE OF=> chief justice
=> judge, justice, jurist
=> official, functionary
=> skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> adjudicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 8
Stone, Oliver Stone
INSTANCE OF=> film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
=> producer
=> creator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 9
Stone, Lucy Stone
INSTANCE OF=> feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber
=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
INSTANCE OF=> suffragist
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 10
Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
INSTANCE OF=> journalist
=> writer, author
=> communicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 11
Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
INSTANCE OF=> jurist, legal expert
=> expert
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 12
Stone, Edward Durell Stone
INSTANCE OF=> architect, designer
=> creator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 13
stone
=> coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness
=> unemotionality, emotionlessness
=> trait
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun stone
5 of 13 senses of stone
Sense 1
rock, stone
=> achondrite
=> bedrock
=> boulder, bowlder
=> calculus, concretion
=> chondrite
=> clastic rock
=> crystal, crystallization
=> intrusion
=> outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop
=> pebble
=> petrifaction
=> sill
=> stepping stone
=> tor
=> wall rock
=> whinstone, whin
=> xenolith
Sense 2
stone
=> ashlar
HAS INSTANCE=> Blarney Stone
=> capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher
=> cornerstone
=> cornerstone
=> foundation stone
=> gravestone, headstone, tombstone
=> grindstone
=> hearthstone
=> millstone
=> monolith
=> paving stone
=> springer, impost
=> stele, stela
=> whetstone
Sense 3
rock, stone
=> quartzite
=> road metal
=> sedimentary rock
=> sial
=> sima
=> metamorphic rock
=> gravel, crushed rock
=> caliche
=> shingling
=> pumice, pumice stone
=> aphanite
=> claystone
=> dolomite
=> emery stone, emery rock
=> pudding stone, conglomerate
=> fieldstone
=> greisen
=> tufa, calc-tufa
=> magma
=> igneous rock
=> limestone
=> marble
=> matrix
Sense 4
gem, gemstone, stone
=> cabochon
=> opaque gem
=> transparent gem
Sense 6
stone, pit, endocarp
=> peach pit
=> cherry stone
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stone
13 senses of stone
Sense 1
rock, stone
=> natural object
Sense 2
stone
=> building material
Sense 3
rock, stone
=> material, stuff
Sense 4
gem, gemstone, stone
=> crystal
Sense 5
stone
=> avoirdupois unit
Sense 6
stone, pit, endocarp
=> pericarp, seed vessel
Sense 7
Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
INSTANCE OF=> chief justice
Sense 8
Stone, Oliver Stone
INSTANCE OF=> film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
Sense 9
Stone, Lucy Stone
INSTANCE OF=> feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber
INSTANCE OF=> suffragist
Sense 10
Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
INSTANCE OF=> journalist
Sense 11
Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
INSTANCE OF=> jurist, legal expert
Sense 12
Stone, Edward Durell Stone
INSTANCE OF=> architect, designer
Sense 13
stone
=> coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun stone
13 senses of stone
Sense 1
rock, stone
-> natural object
=> cocoon
=> body, organic structure, physical structure
=> body, dead body
=> asterism
=> black body, blackbody, full radiator
=> body
=> carpet
=> celestial body, heavenly body
=> consolidation
=> constellation
=> covering, natural covering, cover
=> extraterrestrial object, estraterrestrial body
=> mechanism
=> nest
=> radiator
=> rock, stone
=> sample
=> tangle
=> universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm
=> plant part, plant structure
Sense 2
stone
-> building material
=> brick
=> building block
=> stone
=> bricks and mortar
=> cement
=> concrete
=> covering material
=> fencing material, fencing
=> flooring
=> gunite
=> insulating material, insulant, insulation
=> lath and plaster
=> lumber, timber
=> mortar
=> roofing material
=> shingle, shake
=> siding
=> staff
=> sticks and stone
=> wattle and daub
Sense 3
rock, stone
-> material, stuff
=> ballast
=> bedding material, bedding, litter
=> rind
=> precursor
=> atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck
=> ammunition
=> floccule, floc
=> HAZMAT
=> aggregate
=> raw material, staple
=> sorbate
=> sorbent, sorbent material
=> diamagnet
=> mineral
=> rock, stone
=> adhesive material, adhesive agent, adhesive
=> sealing material
=> animal material
=> fluff
=> bimetal
=> abrasive, abradant, abrasive material
=> chemical, chemical substance
=> composite material
=> conductor
=> insulator, dielectric, nonconductor
=> contaminant, contamination
=> particulate, particulate matter
=> dust
=> elastomer
=> earth, ground
=> discharge, emission
=> detritus
=> waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
=> fiber, fibre
=> filling, fill
=> foam
=> homogenate
=> humate
=> impregnation
=> paper
=> packing material, packing, wadding
=> coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
=> plant material, plant substance
=> radioactive material
=> thickening, thickener
=> toner
=> transparent substance, translucent substance
=> undercut
=> builder, detergent builder
=> vernix, vernix caseosa
=> wad
Sense 4
gem, gemstone, stone
-> crystal
=> snowflake, flake
=> ice crystal, snow mist, diamond dust, poudrin, ice needle, frost snow, frost mist
=> gem, gemstone, stone
=> twins
=> ice, water ice
Sense 5
stone
-> avoirdupois unit
=> grain
=> dram
=> ounce, oz.
=> pound, lb
=> half pound
=> quarter pound
=> stone
=> quarter
=> hundredweight, cwt, long hundredweight
=> hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal
=> long ton, ton, gross ton
=> short ton, ton, net ton
=> kiloton
=> megaton
Sense 6
stone, pit, endocarp
-> pericarp, seed vessel
=> epicarp, exocarp
=> mesocarp
=> stone, pit, endocarp
=> capsule
=> bur, burr
Sense 7
Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
-> chief justice
HAS INSTANCE=> Burger, Warren Burger, Warren E. Burger, Warren Earl Burger
HAS INSTANCE=> Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase
HAS INSTANCE=> Ellsworth, Oliver Ellsworth
HAS INSTANCE=> Fuller, Melville W. Fuller, Melville Weston Fuller
HAS INSTANCE=> Hughes, Charles Evans Hughes
HAS INSTANCE=> Jay, John Jay
HAS INSTANCE=> Marshall, John Marshall
HAS INSTANCE=> Rehnquist, William Rehnquist, William Hubbs Rehnquist
HAS INSTANCE=> Rutledge, John Rutledge
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
HAS INSTANCE=> Taft, William Howard Taft, President Taft
HAS INSTANCE=> Taney, Roger Taney, Roger Brooke Taney
HAS INSTANCE=> Vinson, Frederick Moore Vinson
HAS INSTANCE=> Waite, Morrison Waite, Morrison R. Waite, Morrison Remick Waite
HAS INSTANCE=> Warren, Earl Warren
HAS INSTANCE=> White, Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr.
Sense 8
Stone, Oliver Stone
-> film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
=> auteur
=> film director, director
=> New Waver
HAS INSTANCE=> Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci
HAS INSTANCE=> Capra, Frank Capra
HAS INSTANCE=> Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
HAS INSTANCE=> Cocteau, Jean Cocteau
HAS INSTANCE=> Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola
HAS INSTANCE=> DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille, Cecil Blount DeMille
HAS INSTANCE=> De Sica, Vittorio De Sica
HAS INSTANCE=> Disney, Walt Disney, Walter Elias Disney
HAS INSTANCE=> Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
HAS INSTANCE=> Fellini, Federico Fellini
HAS INSTANCE=> Ford, John Ford
HAS INSTANCE=> Godard, Jean Luc Godard
HAS INSTANCE=> Goldwyn, Sam Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn
HAS INSTANCE=> Griffith, D. W. Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark Griffith
HAS INSTANCE=> Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes
HAS INSTANCE=> Huston, John Huston
HAS INSTANCE=> Jewison, Norman Jewison
HAS INSTANCE=> Kieslowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski
HAS INSTANCE=> Korda, Sir Alexander Korda, Sandor Kellner
HAS INSTANCE=> Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick
HAS INSTANCE=> Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa
HAS INSTANCE=> Lee, Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee
HAS INSTANCE=> Lubitsch, Ernst Lubitsch
HAS INSTANCE=> Lucas, George Lucas
HAS INSTANCE=> Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, Louis Burt Mayer
HAS INSTANCE=> Pollack, Sydney Pollack
HAS INSTANCE=> Redford, Robert Redford, Charles Robert Redford
HAS INSTANCE=> Russell, Ken Russell, Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell
HAS INSTANCE=> Scorsese, Martin Scorsese
HAS INSTANCE=> Selznick, David O. Selznick, David Oliver Selznick
HAS INSTANCE=> Sennett, Mack Sennett
HAS INSTANCE=> Spielberg, Steven Spielberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Stevens, George Stevens
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, Oliver Stone
HAS INSTANCE=> Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Tarantino
HAS INSTANCE=> Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky
HAS INSTANCE=> Tati, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff
HAS INSTANCE=> Truffaut, Francois Truffaut
HAS INSTANCE=> Visconti, Luchino Visconti, Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone
HAS INSTANCE=> von Sternberg, Josef von Sternberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Wajda, Andrzej Wajda
HAS INSTANCE=> Warner, Charles Dudley Warner
HAS INSTANCE=> Welles, Orson Welles, George Orson Welles
HAS INSTANCE=> Wilder, Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder
HAS INSTANCE=> Wyler, William Wyler
HAS INSTANCE=> Zanuck, Darryl Zanuck, Darryl Francis Zanuck
HAS INSTANCE=> Zinnemann, Fred Zinnemann
Sense 9
Stone, Lucy Stone
-> feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber
=> suffragette
HAS INSTANCE=> Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir
HAS INSTANCE=> Friedan, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
HAS INSTANCE=> Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
HAS INSTANCE=> Mott, Lucretia Coffin Mott
HAS INSTANCE=> Paul, Alice Paul
HAS INSTANCE=> Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
HAS INSTANCE=> Steinem, Gloria Steinem
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, Lucy Stone
HAS INSTANCE=> Truth, Sojourner Truth
HAS INSTANCE=> Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
HAS INSTANCE=> Wright, Frances Wright, Fanny Wright
-> suffragist
=> suffragette
HAS INSTANCE=> Anthony, Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Susan Brownell Anthony
HAS INSTANCE=> Howe, Julia Ward Howe
HAS INSTANCE=> Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
HAS INSTANCE=> Morris, Esther Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris
HAS INSTANCE=> Mott, Lucretia Coffin Mott
HAS INSTANCE=> Rankin, Jeannette Rankin
HAS INSTANCE=> Shaw, Anna Howard Shaw
HAS INSTANCE=> Smith, Julia Evelina Smith
HAS INSTANCE=> Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, Lucy Stone
HAS INSTANCE=> Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
HAS INSTANCE=> Woodhull, Victoria Clafin Woodhull
Sense 10
Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
-> journalist
=> broadcast journalist
=> columnist, editorialist
=> correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman
=> gazetteer
=> photojournalist
=> scribe, scribbler, penman
=> sob sister
=> sports writer, sportswriter
HAS INSTANCE=> Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Alfred Alistair Cooke
HAS INSTANCE=> Gilmer, Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer, Dorothy Dix
HAS INSTANCE=> Greeley, Horace Greeley
HAS INSTANCE=> Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest
HAS INSTANCE=> Lippmann, Walter Lippmann
HAS INSTANCE=> Mencken, H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken
HAS INSTANCE=> Reed, John Reed
HAS INSTANCE=> Seaman, Elizabeth Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Nellie Bly
HAS INSTANCE=> Shirer, William Lawrence Shirer
HAS INSTANCE=> Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands
HAS INSTANCE=> Steffens, Lincoln Steffens, Joseph Lincoln Steffens
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
HAS INSTANCE=> White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White
HAS INSTANCE=> Woollcott, Alexander Woollcott
Sense 11
Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
-> jurist, legal expert
=> mufti
HAS INSTANCE=> Bentham, Jeremy Bentham
HAS INSTANCE=> Grotius, Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot
HAS INSTANCE=> Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
HAS INSTANCE=> Marshall, John Marshall
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
Sense 12
Stone, Edward Durell Stone
-> architect, designer
=> landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist
HAS INSTANCE=> Aalto, Alvar Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
HAS INSTANCE=> Adam, Robert Adam
HAS INSTANCE=> Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti
HAS INSTANCE=> Behrens, Peter Behrens
HAS INSTANCE=> Berlage, Hendrik Petrus Berlage
HAS INSTANCE=> Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
HAS INSTANCE=> Bramante, Donato Bramante, Donato d'Agnolo Bramante
HAS INSTANCE=> Breuer, Marcel Lajos Breuer
HAS INSTANCE=> Brunelleschi, Filippo Brunelleschi
HAS INSTANCE=> Bullfinch, Charles Bullfinch
HAS INSTANCE=> Burnham, Daniel Hudson Burnham
HAS INSTANCE=> Butterfield, William Butterfield
HAS INSTANCE=> Carrere, John Merven Carrere
HAS INSTANCE=> Chambers, William Chambers, Sir William Chambers
HAS INSTANCE=> Delorme, Philibert Delorme, de l'Orme, Philibert de l'Orme
HAS INSTANCE=> Fuller, Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller
HAS INSTANCE=> Garnier, Jean Louis Charles Garnier
HAS INSTANCE=> Gaudi, Antonio Gaudi, Gaudi i Cornet, Antonio Gaudi i Cornet
HAS INSTANCE=> Gilbert, Cass Gilbert
HAS INSTANCE=> Giotto, Giotto di Bondone
HAS INSTANCE=> Gropius, Walter Gropius
HAS INSTANCE=> Hastings, Thomas Hastings
HAS INSTANCE=> Hoffmann, Josef Hoffmann
HAS INSTANCE=> Horta, Victor Horta
HAS INSTANCE=> Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt
HAS INSTANCE=> Jenny, William Le Baron Jenny
HAS INSTANCE=> Jones, Inigo Jones
HAS INSTANCE=> Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn
HAS INSTANCE=> Labrouste, Henri Labrouste
HAS INSTANCE=> Latrobe, Benjamin Henry Latrobe
HAS INSTANCE=> Le Corbusier, Charles Edouard Jeanneret
HAS INSTANCE=> L'Enfant, Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Charles L'Enfant
HAS INSTANCE=> Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci
HAS INSTANCE=> Lin, Maya Lin
HAS INSTANCE=> Loos, Adolf Loos
HAS INSTANCE=> Lutyens, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens
HAS INSTANCE=> Mansart, Francois Mansart
HAS INSTANCE=> McKim, Charles Follen McKim
HAS INSTANCE=> Mendelsohn, Erich Mendelsohn
HAS INSTANCE=> Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti
HAS INSTANCE=> Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
HAS INSTANCE=> Mills, Robert Mills
HAS INSTANCE=> Nervi, Pier Luigi Nervi
HAS INSTANCE=> Palladio, Andrea Palladio
HAS INSTANCE=> Paxton, Joseph Paxton, Sir Joseph Paxton
HAS INSTANCE=> Pei, I. M. Pei, Ieoh Ming Pei
HAS INSTANCE=> Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
HAS INSTANCE=> Richardson, Henry Hobson Richardson
HAS INSTANCE=> Saarinen, Eero Saarinen
HAS INSTANCE=> Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen
HAS INSTANCE=> Soufflot, Jacques Germain Soufflot
HAS INSTANCE=> Speer, Albert Speer
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, Edward Durell Stone
HAS INSTANCE=> Strickland, William Strickland
HAS INSTANCE=> Sullivan, Louis Sullivan, Louis Henry Sullivan, Louis Henri Sullivan
HAS INSTANCE=> Tange, Kenzo Tange
HAS INSTANCE=> Thornton, William Thornton
=> Town, Ithiel Town
HAS INSTANCE=> Upjohn, Richard Upjohn
HAS INSTANCE=> Vanbrugh, John Vanbrugh, Sir John Vanbrigh
HAS INSTANCE=> van de Velde, Henri van de Velde, Henri Clemens van de Velde
HAS INSTANCE=> Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi
HAS INSTANCE=> Wagner, Otto Wagner
HAS INSTANCE=> White, Stanford White
HAS INSTANCE=> Wren, Sir Christopher Wren
HAS INSTANCE=> Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright
HAS INSTANCE=> Wyatt, James Wyatt
Sense 13
stone
-> coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness
=> stone
=> tepidness, lukewarmness
--- Grep of noun stones
jackstones
Grep of noun stone
abrading stone
bilestone
black turnstone
bladder stone
blarney stone
bloodstone
blue stone
bluestone
breakstone
brimstone
brownstone
capstone
chalkstone
cherry stone
cherrystone
china stone
cinnamon stone
claystone
clingstone
cobblestone
copestone
coping stone
cornerstone
curbstone
david livingstone
dripstone
dry-stone wall
edward durell stone
emery stone
fieldstone
fire and brimstone
firestone
flagstone
flintstone
flowering stone
foundation stone
freestone
gallstone
gemstone
gladstone
goldstone
gravestone
grindstone
gritstone
hailstone
harlan f. stone
harlan fisk stone
harlan fiske stone
harlan stone
headstone
hearthstone
histone
holystone
hornstone
i. f. stone
isidor feinstein stone
jadestone
kerbstone
keystone
kidney stone
limestone
living stone
livingstone
loadstone
lodestone
lucy stone
marlstone
mearstone
meerestone
merestone
mifepristone
milestone
millstone
moonstone
new stone age
oilstone
oliver stone
paving stone
philosopher's stone
philosophers' stone
pitchstone
precious stone
pudding stone
pumice stone
rhinestone
rosetta stone
rottenstone
ruddy turnstone
sandstone
siltstone
sir charles wheatstone
soapstone
standing stone
stepping stone
sticks and stone
stone
stone's throw
stone-face
stone-root
stone age
stone bass
stone bramble
stone breaker
stone crab
stone cress
stone curlew
stone drill
stone facing
stone fly
stone fruit
stone life face
stone marten
stone mimicry plant
stone parsley
stone pine
stone pit
stone plant
stone root
stone wall
stonechat
stonecress
stonecrop
stonecrop family
stonecutter
stoneface
stonefish
stonefly
stonehenge
stonemason
stoner
stoneroot
stonewall jackson
stonewaller
stonewalling
stoneware
stonework
stonewort
sunstone
swiss stone pine
tombstone
touchstone
turnstone
wheatstone
whetstone
whinstone
william ewart gladstone
william gladstone
yellowstone