Anvil Quotes
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People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
— Margaret Halsey
Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.
— Tad Williams
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
— Erwin Rommel
... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.
— Terry Pratchett
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
— Thomas Malory
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
— Emily Dickinson
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
— J.G. Holland
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
— Pindar
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.
— Berl Katznelson
I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.
— Joel Greenblatt
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.
— Rosemary Sutcliff
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
— Chris Crutcher
ZENITHNOON beats out
on its solar anvil
the rays of light — Sonia Delaunay
Ordinary effort, ordinary result ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.
— Ethan Hawke
She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.
— Brandon Mull
Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.
— Herman Melville
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Palestine is the anvil of our souls.
— Clovis Maksoud
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
— John Webster
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
— Aeschylus
Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness
— Krista Bremer
And deep within him, missing its accustomed tread, his heart paused, and gave one single stroke, as if on an anvil.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
— Robert Jordan
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
— Ramana Maharshi
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
— Billy Casper
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
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
— Alice Tisdale Hobart
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard.
— Stanley Goldyn
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
The anvil breaks a legion of hammers - by quietly bearing their blows.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
his abusemakes her an anvil
without spark — Munia Khan
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer ...
— George Orwell
What the hammer? What the Chains?In what furnace was thy brain?
Where the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terrors clasp? — William Blake
Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
— Herman E. Daly
The work of Renny's bow, Anvil's teeth, Nathaniel's fists and the four swords of the others brought the fight to a quick close.
— Nicole Sager
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Thus at the flaming forge of lifeOur fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
