Axes Quotes

103 quotes by 92 authors

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated… — Robert Bellarmine
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls… — Brenda Peterson
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded… — Tony Hoagland
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we… — Johannes Stark
I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he… — Al Franken
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying… — Jonathan Ive
Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,… — Herbert M. Shelton
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. — Alexander Dubcek
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. — David Hackworth
Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis… — Jean Klein
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their… — Confucius
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought… — D. W Brogan
God grinds the axes he intends to use. — Dave Sim
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it… — Edsger Dijkstra
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right… — Michael Nesmith

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