#tone

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.' ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#many #read #should #tombstones

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#because #change #come #football #future

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#all-powerful #character #forming #giving #hardly

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #iii #iv #know #sticks

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#always #am #did #done #i

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ↗

— Alcaeus

#canals #city #finely #houses #make

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#came #cannot #family #i #idea

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#cd #dreamed #enjoy #fantastic #first