Axes Quotes
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Hunger and love are the two axes of the world.
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More Axes Quotes
You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.
john amaechi— in a speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007
His face was a frame of strong brutal bones, so hard, the set of his jaw so aggressive, that it brought to mind Teuton warriors, shouts, winging of axes, berserk.
— King Dido, description of Dido Peach
Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.
kenan evren— Strong Army Medicine, Time. (Dec. 08, 1980)
— Remark by Evren at a 1980 meeting of the Journalists' Association of Turkey.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
Reginald Heber— Palestine, line 163; "No workman's steel", as recited by Heber in The Sheldonian (June 15, 1803).
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence!
Reginald Heber— "Palestine"; this was altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung".
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.
stephen jay gould— p. 8 (Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987))
I sit with my toes in a brook. And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
horace walpole— See Cunningham's Walpole.
Orcs came with axes and cut down my trees.
— The Two Towers, III, 4: "Treebeard"; said by Bregalad.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" (1975). Published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17:5 (May 1982), pp. 13–15.
This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails;
Daniel Defoe— Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, (1724).
