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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

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Emile Zola

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

I will not move an inch; I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking — Munia Khan

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

ZENITH
NOON beats out
on its solar anvil
the rays of light — Sonia Delaunay

Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes. — C.L. Werner

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

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

It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about. — George Orwell

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark

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

Let me think ... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? — Isaac Newton

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus

If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil? — Jodi Picoult

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping. — Neal A. Maxwell

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. — Elizabeth Haydon

As for the coyote, he was nothing like his cartoon icon. He was sleek, fast, healthy and apparently without an anvil or Acme product of any kind. — Doug Fine

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

And as any man does when faced with the raw terror of emotion, he surrendered to his wife and buried his thoughts below the anvil of his heart. — Jason Mott

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. — Angie Harmon

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

The anvil is hard so that it can help shape the blade. If life were easy, we would all be soft and misshapen shards of metal, tossed into a bin. — J.M. Bush

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil. — Saint Dominic

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

Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil. — Pindar

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 abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark — Munia Khan

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer ... — George Orwell

man is not molded from clay . . . he is pounded like hot iron on an anvil. — Terry Mancour

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

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. — Pindar

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J.G. Holland

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten. — Voltaire

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

On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat. — Janet Fitch

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. — Horace

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our 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

For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike.
— Edwin Markham