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On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
- Josh McDowell
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
- Michael Douglas
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
- Samuel Johnson
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
- Jack Kerouac
And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so. - Javert
- Victor Hugo
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
- Victor Hugo
Winter changes the water of heaven and the heart of man into a stone.
- Victor Hugo
A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you're being stoned.
- Ayn Rand
Though some Bible students have tried to estimate how much this stone weighed, we need not speculate, because Jesus could have come out of that tomb whether the stone was there or not.
- Billy Graham
For although He who is the true God is God, not by opinion, but by nature, nevertheless all nature is not God; for there is certainly a nature of man, of a beast, of a tree, of a stone,—none of which is God.
- St. Augustine
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your father lies beneath a stone,' old Aedwen mumbles, dozing at her wheel, and Godric thinks how it's a stone as well they're all beneath. The stone is need and hurt and gall and tongue-tied longing, for that's the stone that kinship always bears, yet the loss of it would press more grievous still.
- Frederick Buechner