#tone

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

#i #lover #me #quarrel #stone

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to. ↗

— David Frum

#also #anything #been #driven #extreme

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#five #full #love #octave #tones

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#break #hearts #our #sticks #stones

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#become #best #elevate #heart #honesty

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

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#along #individual #most #path #progress

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#am #barriers #between #community #conscious

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#england #felt #found #i #pleistocene