Hew Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I… — Michelangelo
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon
God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do… — J I Packer
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And… — H.G. Wells
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30… — Lawrence Hargrave
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my… — Phineas Quimby
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. — Stephen King
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope
The writer must hew the phantom rock. — Carson McCullers
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one… — Hope Mirrlees
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew… — Samuel Johnson
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed… — William C. Bryant
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a… — Andrew Solomon
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for… — Steven Pinker
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. — William Shakespeare
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,… — Hermann Hesse
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some… — Paul Di Filippo

Who Wrote These Hew Quotes

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