Axes Quotes
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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 Dijkstra
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
— Reginald Heber
Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs - these tools belong in patient hands.
— John Irving
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
It could just be a shift on the axis.
— Bill Cassidy
God grinds the axes he intends to use.
— Dave Sim
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.
— Robert Breault
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!
— Charlie Chaplin
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Thanks for everything.""As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have.
"Stay sharp," Carter told him. — Rick Riordan
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
— Anne Carson
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
— Dennis Kucinich
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
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.
— Robert Breault
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
— Robert Breault
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
— Haruki Murakami
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
— George W. Bush
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world had a fragile liquid quality, running at the edges and spinning on previously unrevealed axes.
— Scott Lynch
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
— Bill Vaughan
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
— Roman Jakobson
