Quotes with stepping-stones

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  • Henry David Thoreau 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
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Faulkner The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Annie Leibovitz At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Burr Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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  • Annie Dillard 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
    American author (1945 - )
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  • John L. Motley Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Margot Asquith 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
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • George Shinn Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Albert Einstein I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein 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
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Barry Gibb I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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