Quotes 81 till 100 of 145.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Beatrix Potters Letters -
That you know flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.Magic (2007) Long Walk Home -
That's why many fail - because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549) -
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth -
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
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The stone is broken, but the words are alive.
The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
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