“Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.”
In 1968, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.
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“Within a stone's throw of it.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 9.
“When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones.”
When quizzed about people still questioning him over his inability to make India win the matches. http://www.cricages.com/sachin-zone/when-people-throw-stones-at-you-you-turn-them-into-milestones-sachin/
“Boys throw stones at frogs in fun, but the frogs do not die in fun, but in earnest.”
Variant translation: Boys throw stones at frogs for fun, but the frogs don't die for "fun", but in sober earnest.
As quoted by Plutarch, Moralia, xii. 66
“Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don’t throw them at me.”
Cited in: " Syrian Psychologist on the Clash of Civilizations https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/arabs/syrianpsych.html," at jewishvirtuallibrary.org, March 7, 2006.
Interview on Al Jazeera TV, 2006
Context: Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don’t throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people’s beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.
“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”
"On Nicknames"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)