#tone

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. ↗

— Amber Frey

#choices #comes #end #in the end #into

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#cornerstone #correctness #culture #dominates #feminism

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