Axis Quotes

92 quotes by 84 authors

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and… — Stafford Cripps
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts… — Erwin Chargaff
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. — Roman Jakobson
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis! — Charlie Chaplin
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at… — Friedrich Schiller
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,… — Susan Sontag
Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than… — Jared Diamond
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 one part of… — Jared Diamond
We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want… — Walid Jumblatt
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But… — Jeffrey Kluger
I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is… — Alan Moore
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till… — Ernest Shackleton
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the… — Nhat Hanh
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun. — Libba Bray
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… — Jorge Luis Borges
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,… — Salman Rushdie
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was… — Stephen King
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on… — Joyce Carol Oates

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