Axe Quotes
131 quotes by 110 authors
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You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No…
— John Flanagan
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This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And…
— Terry Pratchett
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Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
— Franz Kafka
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Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general…
— Rick Riordan
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I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares…
— Yann Martel
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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like…
— Franz Kafka
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me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the…
— David Levithan
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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the…
— Albert Einstein
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I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you…
— Malcolm X
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Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.
— Ilona Andrews
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To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time,…
— Beryl Markham
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Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work…
— Nora Roberts
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So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.
— Bob Marley
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What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was…
— Rick Riordan
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife…
— Alan Paton
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she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.
— George R. R. Martin
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
— Nikolai Gogol
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Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
Who Wrote These Axe Quotes
110 authors contributed a total of 131 Axe Quotes, led by these top contributors: