Axis Quotes

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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. — Jeb Bush
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes — Franklin P. Adams
It could just be a shift on the axis. — Bill Cassidy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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