Stone Tablet Quotes & Sayings

Always recognize the foces that will shape my life. I let them do their work. Sometimes they tear through my life like a hurricane. Sometimes they simply shift the ground under me, so that I stand on different earth, and something or someone has been swallowed up. I steady myself, in the earthquate. I lie down, and let the hurricane pass over me. I never fight. Afterwards I look around me, and I say, 'Ah, so this at least is left for me. And that dear person has also survived.' I quietly inscribe on the stone tablet of my heart the name which has gone forever. Th inscription is a thing of agony. Then I start on my way again. — Josephine Hart

Think it's the artifact. It says the tablet is on the Isle of Eigg, hidden and guarded in a stone circle. — Donna Grant

Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't. — Michael Cunningham

Beauty is a handcuff and a leg iron; it captures you and it immobilizes you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Beyond the tablet of stone, the papyrus scroll or parchment roll, human life has become the articulate voice of God. Jesus is the crescendo of God's conversation with humankind; he gives context and content to the authentic thought. Everything that God had in mind for man is voiced in him. Jesus is God's language. — Francois Du Toit

The law, that is what makes men stay honest. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it. — Robert M. Pirsig

Once, he told them the truth. Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. The man to whom he'd entrusted the tablet promptly shattered it, chiseled ten precise commands upon two stone slabs and carried them down a mountain with the pomp and circumstance of a prophet. Religious wars ravaged that world ever since. — Karen Marie Moning

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. — Napoleon Hill

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne. — Cleanth Brooks

I love getting out of my comfort zone. — David Byrne

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. — John Bunyan

The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of the schoolyard and asked to touch a tongue piercing. — Elizabeth Bard

When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery. — David G. McAfee