#tone

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#heroic #minds #stepping #stones #success

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. ↗

— Kublai Khan

#matters #me #only #speak #stones

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#back #bomb #into #should #stone

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#plenty #ruined #stones #world

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ↗

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. ↗

— Ron Wood

#close #go #got #growing #growing up

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything! ↗

— Ron Wood

#art #being #came #collectors #everything

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. ↗

— Aubrey de Vere

#memory #naked #stands #tombstone #weeds

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture. ↗

— Marshall Sahlins

#culture #evolution #hunger #hunters #starvation