#stone

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#block #over #over it #see #stepping-stone

You kissed me, and I opened my eyes and thought you were Death. You were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and I clung to the memory of you because it gave me comfort—the only bit of happiness I had ever had. You were my secret fantasy, my lover. My story… Lord Death is you, and the woman he stalks…is me.” “Why have you come,” he asked, “when you now know the truth?” “Because when you saved me, you forged a link between us. I don’t believe it will ever break.” “Bella,” he whispered, “I couldn’t allow you to take your life. Couldn’t bear the thought of existing in a world that you did not. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella #jude #seduction-and-scandal #beauty

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#heart #man #mere #ought #scientific

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

Fling but a stone, the giant dies. ↗

— Matthew Green

#dies #fling #giant #stone

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#central #extraordinary #furniture #had #hearth

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#did #dylan #hit #i #kinks

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#appointed #beating #been #come #heads

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#face #lie #only #same #stand

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

#been #best #declare #duly #duties