Hewn Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn…
— Arne Jacobsen
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He…
— John Milton
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I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of…
— John Wijngaards
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Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.…
— Walter Benjamin
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The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to…
— Glenn Gould
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No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther…
— John Muir
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though…
— John Muir
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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
— Heywood Broun
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but…
— Bible
Who Wrote These Hewn Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Hewn Quotes as follows: