Hewn Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

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
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
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
Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product. — Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. — Heywood Broun
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

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