Axes Quotes

• To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Heart, Mean

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

  Gregory Peck

  Want, Lectures, Host

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Stupid, Trying, Use

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

  Roman Jakobson

  Two, Succession

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• Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

  Michael Nesmith

  Publicity, Interviews, Grind

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Reality, People, Decision

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• You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

  John Amaechi

  Cutting, World, Woods

  Speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007.

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• We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

  Jeb Bush

  Morning, World, September

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• To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Heart, Eye, Photograph

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivation, Perfection, Waiting

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• No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

  Reginald Heber

  Silence, Hammers, Fabric

  Reginald Heber, Amelia Heber (1830). “The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes”, p.30

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• Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

  Stafford Cripps

  Evil, Design, Suffering

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• That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

  David Hackworth

  Religious, Islamic, Goal

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2015

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• There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Optimistic, Fancy

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• Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sex, Skulls, Violence

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Halloween, Distance, Warrior

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Roots, Violence

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• 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

  Silence, Sound, Earth

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 30, 2015

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• 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

  Rap, Doe, Crooks

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• Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fall, Air, Giving

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.

  Wil Wheaton

  Running, Google, Body

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• For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

  D. W Brogan

  Sports, Military, War

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• I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

  Alan Moore

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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