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For the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.


R. Scott Bakker

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He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
BIBLE He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
JOHN 8:7 He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
SAADI He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
SA'DI In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man with the Stone, is not the one to fear, fear the one that made the Stone.
DAVID J. GONZALEZ My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY Sin is a stone which does not float.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful. I didn't want a biography th...
DAN FUTTERMAN The prime minister has clearly said his visits are private ones. The difference between a private vi...
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL But they looked across that courtroom and they saw another stone-faced, emotionless, sometimes even ...
DEAN JOHNSON This Stone

He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ...
HUBERT REEVES Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in ...
JOHN PIPER Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Everybody worships me, it's nauseating
NOEL COWARD They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute for...
EMILY THORNE Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, lang...
STEPHEN FRY The man who worships mere wealth is a snob
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
JESUS CHRIST Be yourself. The world worships the original.
INGRID BERGMAN For even if the greatest sinner worships me with all his soul, he must be considered righteous, beca...
ANONYMOUS Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
JESUS CHRIST A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPER Then this God does exist according to you?"
"He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there i...
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DAVID MARSHALL What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
ALICE WALKER What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears
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CALVIN COOLIDGE You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives o...
PERICLES And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders reject...
BIBLE The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be belie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL But which is the stone that supports the bridge?
KUBLAI KHAN What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
ALICE WALKER In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, ...
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JEFF MANTO As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image...
DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS") I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pant...
JIM BUTCHER Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
ROBERT FROST All he has ever done is discuss vertical face surgery, a technique he innovated, and articles have s...
ARTHUR BARENS You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can´t lift it?
STEPHEN HAWKING It's funny as a brand Stone is Greg's idea. But Greg's not that way at all. He is a guy who is quick...
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SHūSAKU ENDō No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G. K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G.K. CHESTERTON The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. Ame...
DIRK BENEDICT While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades, ... the evangelical movemen...
TOM BROKAW While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement ...
TOM BROKAW He's got a really good sense of humor and I know that every teen-age boy in America worships him.
FAIRUZA BALK Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS If Scott is feeling any pressure he has done a good job of hiding it. I feel good about him. I am no...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the first years, their only question had been -- asked with beseechings and tears that might hav...
MARK TWAIN No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
SHREYA GHOSHAL And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of...
BIBLE We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nosta...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder ...
BOB MARLEY Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one,
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; CHARLES DICKENS He wants us to search for Him as for hidden treasure, leaving no stone unturned.
DANA CANDLER The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
BIBLE The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
BIBLE The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner
BIBLE Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.
CATHERINE LEE Not is the Stone, is the power of the Lord and your faith that Killer the Giant that haunts you
RAFAEL D JESUS FERRERAS CASTILLO I only throw a stone if there's a stone thrown at me. As long as there's not a stone thrown at me, y...
BARRY BONDS The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Queens of the Stone Age: A Stone Unturned.
JOSH HOMME The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.
TIM VINE My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.
SCOTT PATTERSON If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now
ELINOR WYLIE I've never been or never will be a Satan Worshipper, or someone who worships the Devil.
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JOHN MURRAY I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a ...
ARTHUR MILLER If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murki...
MANDY HALE Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...
PHILIP K. DICK From a heart of stone, to a heart of flesh, love makes new what sin makes old
JOHN M SHEEHAN I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convinc...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, ...
BIBLE India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN There is a stone there, That whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses To grow eloquent. ...
FATHER PROUT (PSEUDONYM OF FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY)

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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
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