In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might possibly answer, that for any thing I know to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the stone? why is it not as admissable in the second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz., that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose . . . This mechanism being observed . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place of other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
View quotes by William PaleyEvery charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games.
View quotes by Cathy FreemanIt [the assault] will be but a
stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, until our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
View quotes by Stephen FieldUpon stepping foot on the moon, Buzz remarked to Houston, 'Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation.'
View quotes by Buzz AldrinThe ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
View quotes by Ayn RandDevelop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
View quotes by Dale CarnegieShe said it would be fantastic. I think she's hoping it'll make me less clumsy and stop me stepping on the dog. I really am the worst dancer!' [on his wife's view on his role in Strictly Come Dancing]
View quotes by Quentin WillsonI'm delighted to be stepping up to the mantle at such a fantastic football club. I see Leeds as a great club that has fallen on hard times.
View quotes by Ken BatesUse missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
View quotes by Susan TaylorWe are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us
View quotes by Hannah MorePeople were stepping on our faces trying to get to Brad [on filming with him]
View quotes by Matt DamonIts really beautiful and expensive and I like it a lot. I’ve gotten a lot of complements on it. It just seemed erotic in a place most people wouldn’t have the guts to do it
- Christina Aguilera on a diamond stud piercing in a very private part of her body.
- Rolling Stone, Nov. 14, 2002.
View quotes by Christina AguileraOn Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead):
'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.'
View quotes by Russell CroweUnder this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!
(Epitaph to Sir John Vanbrugh)
View quotes by Abel EvansThe film of my life would be called Sharon Stone Falls In Love With A Black Dirk Diggler.
View quotes by Wyclef JeanLet him who is without sin cast the first stone.
View quotes by Jesus ChristThe drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
View quotes by Hugh LatimerI prefer to think of the future as something that is not written in stone
View quotes by Jean Luc PicardLike Sisyphus, our work is never done;
Continually rolls back the restless stone. (The Thresher's Labour)
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