Hammered Quotes

• You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

  Ron White

  Truth

  Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Government, President, Anvils

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• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Everyday, Principles

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

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• Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

  Jim Rohn

  Pieces, Great Success, Advantage

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• Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Price Tag

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Home, where life makes up its mind”

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• Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

  "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• A good nail does not fear being hammered.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Nails, Doe

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• [N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Real, Book, Mind

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• Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

  Jojo Moyes

  Morning, Hangover, Drunk

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You”, p.275, Penguin UK

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• The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Book, Dark

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.293, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Said, Solomon

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• He made a sound of frustation, caught at her hand, brought it to his chest, and pressed it flat over his heart. The steady beat hammered against her palm. "Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Hands, Sound

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Doe, Hammers

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• You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

  Brion Gysin

  Two, Nails, Hammers

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• Nobody bleaches [e-mails] because that's an expensive process. [Hillary Clinton] bleached. Get rid of them. And then she made everybody get rid of iPhones, her iPhones, and some of them were hammered. They were hammered to death. All to cover up her crimes.

  Donald Trump

  Iphone, Cover Ups, Bleach

  Source: time.com

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• Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

  Gregory Maguire

  Glowing, Tails, Might

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• The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

  Patrick Jones

  Wisdom, Nails, Sticks

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• I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed

  Roger Clemens

  New York, Team, Yankees

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

  Elizabeth Haydon

  People, Steel, Anvils

  Elizabeth Haydon (2006). “The Floating Island”, p.160, Macmillan

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• it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Crazy, Thinking

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• LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

  Alan Moore

  Home, Reality, Profound

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• There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.

  Alison Goodman

  Men, Hands, Years

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.46, Penguin

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• Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Art, Growing Up

  "Marilyn Manson on his new album 'Born Villain'". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2012.

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• They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Night, Light

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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