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I ’m a bit ashamed to be living in Britain today with how Mr Khan has led The City of New York carry on with President Donald Trump here. Mr Khan’s the worst mayor we had in history in London. It’s easier now to get a knife or a deadly weapon than it’s to get Starbucks. You can get a knife anywhere here at the moment, he’s in no position to be throwing rocks in glass houses. – Mark Wright	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
To find the golden stone, we have to go through rough rocks. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 5 years ago
There’s often olivine in rocks all over Hawaii. – Another Twitter user GEOetc	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I'm young, so I might as well stay on court and practise a little bit, it's the best, a five-set match. It is the first time Alexander Zverev has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam and Alexander Zverev will face Austrian seventh seed Dominic Thiem, who beat Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-2 6-0 5-7 6-4. Nishikori took his only break point opportunity to claim the third set but Thiem, twice Roland Garros semi-finalist, regained control in the fourth. Former champion Novak Djokovic never looked in trouble as he booked a 12th quarter-final appearance in Paris with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco. French Open runner-up Madison Keys advanced to the last eight without dropping a set, defeating Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-1 6-4. Up next for Keys is Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, who upset 26th seed Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3. American Stephens sprinted past Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6-2 6-0 to set up a potential semi-final meeting with Keys, whom Anett Kontaveit beat in last year's U.S. Open final. Highlights from day eight( all times GMT :. Play was suspended due to fading light, with Russian Daria Kasatkina leading 7-6( 5) 3-3 against second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. Zverev's days of living dangerously go on. Roland Garros ready for' legendary' match against Zverev in Paris. Djokovic tames Verdasco to reach last eight. Italian Cecchinato upsets Goffin to reach last eight. American Stephens and Keys on collision course after overcoming French Open hump. Alexander Zverev rocks on by living on the edge. Keys enjoys Sunday stroll into French quarters. Djokovic douses Verdasco fire, unhappy with courts. Impressive Thiem downs Nishikori to set up Alexander Zverev clash. Serena and Sharapova ready to sharpen the edge. Impressive Putintseva stuns Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3 to reach Paris quarters. Italian Marco Cecchinato, who had never won a Grand Slam match before this week, beat eighth-seeded Belgian David Goffin 7-5 4-6 6-0 6-3 to reach Grand Slam first major quarter-final. At world number 72, Marco Cecchinato becomes the lowest-ranked man to reach the last eight in Paris since Latvian Ernests Gulbis( ranked 80) in 2008. He will next face 2016 champion Novak Djokovic for a place in the final four. – Alexander Zverev	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
With a heavy boom that shook Mount Mantap, dirt and broken rocks spilled out from the entrance. – South Korean media	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I’ve actually seen rocks fly over the tree line, and I can feel it in my body, it’s like a nuclear reaction or something. – Richard Schott	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Those occur when lava flows encounter vegetated areas and vegetation burns and releases methane gas, methane pockets can get trapped underground and explode violently, throwing rocks and debris in many directions. – Wendy Stovall	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It sounded like if you were to put a bunch of rocks into a dryer and turn it on as high as you could, you could just smell sulfur and burning trees and underbrush and stuff. – Jeremiah Osuna	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The cool thing about the wheels is that they are fully metallic and give us the traction and grip of a rubber wheel without taking anything organic from earth. They will be able climb over rocks and also dig through deep sand. – Abbie Hutty	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The steering wheel was shaking and we could feel boulders and rocks underneath us, the brakes didn’t work. My girlfriend was screaming ‘go go go.'. – Desionne Franklin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Creeks that normally would be dry would turn into raging rivers of mud and debris and large rocks and trees, these can be quite damaging. They’ll destroy roads, they’ll take out homes. – Robert Lewin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Take away his guns and he will use a sword. Take away his sword and he will use a club. Take away his club and he will use a rock. When you take away a culture's soul, there is nothing to stop the evil that lurks in human's heart. You can outlaw guns, swords, clubs and rocks but without the Gospel we are all still broken and angry men filled with hatred and rage. – Everett Piper	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom. – Matthew Stover	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Oftentimes, the companies themselves aren't growing, so it doesn't solve the underlying challenge, if you tie two rocks together, they sink just as fast or faster. – Josh Chernoff	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We have the best beds and the best rocks. – Debbie Ng	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's lovely, mostly all you see is waves and rocks, so it has been been really lovely to see a big expanse of sand. – Roisin Lavelle	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I am not saying they were right for throwing rocks, but rocks didn't warrant coming in and shooting. They( the police) came out to kill. – Charles Evers	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species. – Vic Santucci	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
VanHecke said. But, she made a wrong turn. I started driving around saying God, I need to find the road, Please! Before VanHecke could find her way, her car ran out of gas and it was getting dark. The next day, In hopes of getting found she spelled out ‘HELP’ with rocks. I'd seen enoughmovieswhere people built help signs. – Amber VanHecke	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
What makes these sites so interesting is that they’re deep holes in the ground, It will take humans or better robots to look in many of the nooks and crannies and flip over the rocks that are the best candidates for preserving signs of life from the martian past. – Joseph Levy	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The facts relayed to me are that a small group of students were violent, threw rocks at police and provoked a response that came in the form of tear gas and warning shots. – Prime Minister Peter O'Neill	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If you ease the problems in the banking system you reduce the risk of the banking system pulling down the sovereign and the sovereign pulling down the banks like two big rocks tied together and hurled into a pond. – Robin Marshall	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There are a lot of rocks out there that have been purposefully tamped down, that if were they turned over, would give us a more expansive view of the Saudi role. – Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I can say that the issue of people carving their names and other things in rocks in the Sedona and surrounding area is always a challenge we face, and (we) try to inform people about its destructive nature. we have found that when one person carves something, it encourages others to carve. – Brady Smith	Found on CNN 8 years ago

I ’m a bit ashamed to be living in Britain today with how Mr Khan has led The City of New York carry on with President Donald Trump here. Mr Khan’s the worst mayor we had in history in London. It’s easier now to get a knife or a deadly weapon than it’s to get Starbucks. You can get a knife anywhere here at the moment, he’s in no position to be throwing rocks in glass houses.

– Mark Wright

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

To find the golden stone, we have to go through rough rocks.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
5 years ago

There’s often olivine in rocks all over Hawaii.

– Another Twitter user GEOetc

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm young, so I might as well stay on court and practise a little bit, it's the best, a five-set match. It is the first time Alexander Zverev has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam and Alexander Zverev will face Austrian seventh seed Dominic Thiem, who beat Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-2 6-0 5-7 6-4. Nishikori took his only break point opportunity to claim the third set but Thiem, twice Roland Garros semi-finalist, regained control in the fourth. Former champion Novak Djokovic never looked in trouble as he booked a 12th quarter-final appearance in Paris with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco. French Open runner-up Madison Keys advanced to the last eight without dropping a set, defeating Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-1 6-4. Up next for Keys is Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, who upset 26th seed Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3. American Stephens sprinted past Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6-2 6-0 to set up a potential semi-final meeting with Keys, whom Anett Kontaveit beat in last year's U.S. Open final. Highlights from day eight( all times GMT :. Play was suspended due to fading light, with Russian Daria Kasatkina leading 7-6( 5) 3-3 against second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. Zverev's days of living dangerously go on. Roland Garros ready for' legendary' match against Zverev in Paris. Djokovic tames Verdasco to reach last eight. Italian Cecchinato upsets Goffin to reach last eight. American Stephens and Keys on collision course after overcoming French Open hump. Alexander Zverev rocks on by living on the edge. Keys enjoys Sunday stroll into French quarters. Djokovic douses Verdasco fire, unhappy with courts. Impressive Thiem downs Nishikori to set up Alexander Zverev clash. Serena and Sharapova ready to sharpen the edge. Impressive Putintseva stuns Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3 to reach Paris quarters. Italian Marco Cecchinato, who had never won a Grand Slam match before this week, beat eighth-seeded Belgian David Goffin 7-5 4-6 6-0 6-3 to reach Grand Slam first major quarter-final. At world number 72, Marco Cecchinato becomes the lowest-ranked man to reach the last eight in Paris since Latvian Ernests Gulbis( ranked 80) in 2008. He will next face 2016 champion Novak Djokovic for a place in the final four.

– Alexander Zverev

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

With a heavy boom that shook Mount Mantap, dirt and broken rocks spilled out from the entrance.

– South Korean media

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I’ve actually seen rocks fly over the tree line, and I can feel it in my body, it’s like a nuclear reaction or something.

– Richard Schott

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Those occur when lava flows encounter vegetated areas and vegetation burns and releases methane gas, methane pockets can get trapped underground and explode violently, throwing rocks and debris in many directions.

– Wendy Stovall

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It sounded like if you were to put a bunch of rocks into a dryer and turn it on as high as you could, you could just smell sulfur and burning trees and underbrush and stuff.

– Jeremiah Osuna

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The cool thing about the wheels is that they are fully metallic and give us the traction and grip of a rubber wheel without taking anything organic from earth. They will be able climb over rocks and also dig through deep sand.

– Abbie Hutty

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The steering wheel was shaking and we could feel boulders and rocks underneath us, the brakes didn’t work. My girlfriend was screaming ‘go go go.'.

– Desionne Franklin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Creeks that normally would be dry would turn into raging rivers of mud and debris and large rocks and trees, these can be quite damaging. They’ll destroy roads, they’ll take out homes.

– Robert Lewin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Take away his guns and he will use a sword. Take away his sword and he will use a club. Take away his club and he will use a rock. When you take away a culture's soul, there is nothing to stop the evil that lurks in human's heart. You can outlaw guns, swords, clubs and rocks but without the Gospel we are all still broken and angry men filled with hatred and rage.

– Everett Piper

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom.

– Matthew Stover

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Oftentimes, the companies themselves aren't growing, so it doesn't solve the underlying challenge, if you tie two rocks together, they sink just as fast or faster.

– Josh Chernoff

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We have the best beds and the best rocks.

– Debbie Ng

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's lovely, mostly all you see is waves and rocks, so it has been been really lovely to see a big expanse of sand.

– Roisin Lavelle

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I am not saying they were right for throwing rocks, but rocks didn't warrant coming in and shooting. They( the police) came out to kill.

– Charles Evers

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species.

– Vic Santucci

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

VanHecke said. But, she made a wrong turn. I started driving around saying God, I need to find the road, Please! Before VanHecke could find her way, her car ran out of gas and it was getting dark. The next day, In hopes of getting found she spelled out ‘HELP’ with rocks. I'd seen enoughmovieswhere people built help signs.

– Amber VanHecke

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

What makes these sites so interesting is that they’re deep holes in the ground, It will take humans or better robots to look in many of the nooks and crannies and flip over the rocks that are the best candidates for preserving signs of life from the martian past.

– Joseph Levy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The facts relayed to me are that a small group of students were violent, threw rocks at police and provoked a response that came in the form of tear gas and warning shots.

– Prime Minister Peter O'Neill

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If you ease the problems in the banking system you reduce the risk of the banking system pulling down the sovereign and the sovereign pulling down the banks like two big rocks tied together and hurled into a pond.

– Robin Marshall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are a lot of rocks out there that have been purposefully tamped down, that if were they turned over, would give us a more expansive view of the Saudi role.

– Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I can say that the issue of people carving their names and other things in rocks in the Sedona and surrounding area is always a challenge we face, and (we) try to inform people about its destructive nature. we have found that when one person carves something, it encourages others to carve.

– Brady Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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