Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. — Joseph Joubert
[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone. — Lao Tzu
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
Even a piece of stone, when it gains collective mass attentions gathers vibrations. — Mahatria Ra
Stone by stone, makes a wall, wall by wall makes a castle. — Albanian Proverbs
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument — Ratan Tata
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. — Thomas Carlyle
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on. — Mother Teresa
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones. — Sachin Tendulkar
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. — Jack Penn
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Short Touchstone Quotes
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. — Barack Obama
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. — George Meredith
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. — John F. Kennedy
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. — William Hazlitt
The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends. — Saib Tabrizi
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men. — Chilon of Sparta
Calamity is man's true touchstone. — Beaumont and Fletcher
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. — Henry David Thoreau
Calamity is man's true touchstone. — John William Fletcher
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me. — Carl Rogers
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality. — Dwight Macdonald
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. — Denis Diderot
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare
People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and so forth, and so the big things get lumped together with the lesser things. And the age of the earth is for example virtually made a touchstone of doctrine, when there's so much evidence out there in science against it. — John Lennox
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. — Haruki Murakami
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. — Gloria Vanderbilt
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. — James L. Barksdale
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. — Bertrand Russell
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions. — Benjamin Graham
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. — Joseph Joubert
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself. — Robert Hughes
Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit. — Tom Kenny
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. — Moliere
The truest poetry is the most feigning. — William Shakespeare
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. — Robert A. Heinlein
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society. — Robert Kennedy
For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. — William Shakespeare
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically. — Iggy Pop
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it. — Henri Matisse
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality. — Mahatma Gandhi
It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb. — Greg Zeschuk
When I was at home I was in a better place — William Shakespeare
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. — Carl Jung
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity. — Kent Haruf
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist — Francois Mauriac
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." — William Shakespeare
And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot. — William Shakespeare
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