Anvils famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
-- Angie Harmon -
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
-- Charles Schumer -
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius -
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
-- Elizabeth Haydon -
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
-- Emile Zola -
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
-- Emily Dickinson -
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...
-- George Orwell -
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
-- M. M. Pallam Raju -
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
-- Pindar -
There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.
-- Sara Genn -
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
-- T. D. Jakes -
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -
We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.
-- Daniel Gillies
