Hammered Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A good nail does not fear being hammered.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Nails, Doe

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• If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Nails, Born, Ifs

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• When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Eggs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Civilization, Differences

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.223, Library of America

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• I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Christian, Children

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• Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Civilization, Raw Materials

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.223, Library of America

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• The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Europe, Bob

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• Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Passion

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Lasts

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• So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Culture, Individual

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• Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to make it all okay.

  Stephen Colbert

  Monkeys, Next, Come Up

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• It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my life at all.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Kindness, Pride, Self

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• I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work on something for months and really feel like the project is good and you're doing the best work you can, and then it just gets hammered by critics. It's such a bummer sometimes, because everything seems to build up to the release and a couple of bad reviews can make it seem like it was all a waste, which you know it wasn't.

  Jeff Cardoni

  Couple, Waste, Months

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• The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

  Tracy Thompson

  Circles, Ivy, Anxiety

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.43, Diversion Books

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• That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sorrow, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling than to have that done.

  Matt Stairs

  Sports, Nice, Philadelphia

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• I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

  Stephen King

  Drinking, Recovery, Kissing

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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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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