#stone

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#develop #discouragement #failure #failures #stepping

I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#back #been #coming #eating #feel

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

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#blowing #i #mind #saw #stones

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

— Robert Fulghum

#break #hearts #our #sticks #stones

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#gradual #hell #hell is #milestones #road

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them. ↗

— Bai Ling

#closely #even #feel #george #george lucas