Hammers Quotes
286 Hammers quotes by 235 unique authors
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a…
— J. G. Holland
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
— George Orwell
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There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
— Anton Chekhov
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I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon,…
— Robert Pattinson
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction…
— George R. R. Martin
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.…
— Confucius
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
— Virginia Woolf
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
— Kai Greene
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Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer
— Laurent Fignon
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This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had…
— Matt LeBlanc
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Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit…
— Jason Statham
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When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up…
— Wilmer Valderrama
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Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of…
— Man Ray
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a…
— Imogene Coca
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When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that…
— Mariska Hargitay
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Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None…
— Unknown Author
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My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to…
— Katy Perry
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take…
— Camille Claudel
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He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
— Abraham Maslow
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The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is…
— Thom Yorke
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The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then…
— Unknown Author
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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our…
— Samuel Rutherford
Who Wrote These Hammers Quotes
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