Axes Quotes
103 quotes by 93 authors
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
— Jeb Bush
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
— Thomas Carlyle
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure…
— Louise Bogan
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a…
— Linus Pauling
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"?…
— Doug Stanhope
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once…
— Corey Taylor
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
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It could just be a shift on the axis.
— Bill Cassidy
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
— Gregory Peck
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I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just…
— Peter Jennings
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According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of…
— Jeremy Narby
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States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
— George W. Bush
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States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By…
— George W. Bush
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the…
— Ray Bradbury
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