A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to… — Pope Paul V Copy Share Image
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver… — Kenan Evren Copy Share Image
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
![“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.” quote by Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ac/nicolaus-copernicus-10074_axes_we-are-taught-all-this-the-motion-of-the_741583.jpg)
![“[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good…” quote by Simon Norfolk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3c/simon-norfolk-69071_ashes_my-pictures-are-about-memory-and-forgetf_262236.jpg)
