Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable. Tell me, then, Alobar, in order to achieve immortality, should you emulate water or stone? Should you trust your flesh or your bones?
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Related Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and ... BRUCE LEE Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep. ANI DIFRANCO You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh. PAT BENATAR You are what comes out of your brain. All of the rest is just bones and flesh. QAMAR KHAN QURESHI But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without. JAMES MACARTHUR You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh. PAT BENATAR Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat... MARGARET ATWOOD Eventually everyone dies, but death, in various forms and ways, still comes as a shock. Then they th... MAHENDRA JAKHAR Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when ... ABHISHEK RATNA Remember your true self. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power.... STEPHEN RICHARDS After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell i... FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER I'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisdements I crea... KATIE KACVINSKY They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while ... DAN WELLS At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. PEARL BUCK Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed. LAURELL K. HAMILTON Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the wate... JANET FITCH We are made together with flesh and bones, but held together by hope and prayer. EMILE JOBITY It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that t... E.L. MASCALL Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f... SYDNEY SMITH And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, bec... BIBLE He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Sticks and stones will break your bones if you ever try to cut me with your words. TAYLOR PARSONS All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to s... DORIS LESSING Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ENGLISH PROVERB Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me ENGLISH PROVERB Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like y... JEANETTE LEBLANC No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no communit... B. R. AMBEDKAR The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh bones. BIBLE A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w... THEODORE H. WHITE Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13) BIBLE A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones (Proverbs 14:30). BIBLE I am watching your chest rise and falllike the tides of my life,and the rest of it alland your bones... ANI DIFRANCO Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my ... DANNIKA DARK A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w... THEODORE WHITE Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. STEPHEN FRY Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him wi... JEREMY TAYLOR Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him wi... ALBERT SCHWEITZER For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the... JULIAN OF NORWICH Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in wal... ROBIN HOBB [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the fle... HOMER My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always ... MICHAEL FRANTI Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ... STEPHEN FRY His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. BIBLE We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any noblen... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but doe... SAINT IGNATIUS Yes, he knew it was crazy to be this obsessed over an encounter that had taken up maybe sixty second... MOLLY RINGLE Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that&... MAYA ANGELOU Find your bones. Believe in what you are. GRACE SARA You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently. CASSANDRA CLARE They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my... MAHATMA GANDHI Time is like a river. You can't touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will ne... TIMI NADELA No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kil... TAHEREH MAFI Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... BRUCE LEE Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... BRUCE LEE Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts... ROBERT FULGHUM Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in... PAUL HOFFMAN Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. Then... CHARLES F. GLASSMAN They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obed... MAHATMA GANDHI Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome... BUDDHA Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your ... ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of yo... ANTONIN ARTAUD I don't think anybody knew that you could go in that water with a cut and you can be eaten up by fle... FRIEDERIKE BOSZKO Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and aga... CONN IGGULDEN If your flesh is not submitted to you,then it will defeat power, anointing and talent. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Wa... ARTHUR GOLDEN And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days ... BIBLE Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall ... BIBLE Water remains the best choice for hydration. Low-fat milk will also give you a great protein source,... JULIE RAEDER SCHUMACHER All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo... DORIS LESSING It may be objected by some that I have concentrated too much on the dry bones, and too little on the... A.B. PIPPARD That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a... JENSON BUTTON I sent out an e-mail yesterday that people who fled the storm to lodges and cabins get to stay. Peop... GREG BUTTS Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . . WILLIAM FAULKNER Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever ... TAHEREH MAFI Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human bei... ELIZABETH GILBERT Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me. TAHEREH MAFI No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to... DONALD CURTIS Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to... DONALD CURTIS Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell. CHUCK PALAHNIUK For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnan... RICHARD LEAKEY Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you f... SARAH OCKLER Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for ho... ERIC IDLE So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loin... QUR'AN Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will break my heart. LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit. JAMES HOWE Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, dec... KEVIN R. STONE He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking sti... WILLIAM EMERSON Bones; there are 206 in the human body. No need for dismay, however: two bones of the middle ear ha... UNKNOWN The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kin... WILBUR ROSS You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When ... BRUCE LEE
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. TOM ROBBINS Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ... TOM ROBBINS Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B... TOM ROBBINS Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ... TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results... TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys... TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w... TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th... TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ... TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai... TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ... TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for... TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i... TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with... TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are. TOM ROBBINS