#stone

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#build #compassionate #each #fight #give

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. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people. ↗

— Todd Barry

#certain #certain extent #comedy #extent #i

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#even #good #good band #i #i love

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#died #fails #should #theory #tombstone

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#cause #drag #dress #enough #first

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#different #guitars #having #i #into

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

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#between #calamity #difference #dragged #fell

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ↗

— William Blake

#brothels #built #law #prisons #religion