Hammers Quotes - Page 10

• The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Song, Morning, People

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• Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Doe, Veils

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• Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him. Push aside lofty notions and embrace the workmanlike aesthetic. Hammers above magic wands; nails above eye-of-newt. The magic will return when you're done. The magic is what you did, not what you're doing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Book, Eye, Writing

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• Never in history have we seen such a coverup as this [by Hillary Clinton], one that includes the total destruction of 33,000 e-mails; 13 iPhones, some by hammer; laptops; missing boxes of evidence; and many, many other things.

  Donald Trump

  Iphone, Missing, Mail

  Source: time.com

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• Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.

  David E. Cooper

  Tree, Engagement, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Skills, Numbers

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• One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that it works. When you go at it with a moral hammer, it's really, really bad. It's so bad you wouldn't believe it because you don't accomplish anything. I think the one thing terrorists themselves are vulnerable to is mockery. It's an excellent weapon.

  Lionel Shriver

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!

  Jello Biafra

  Girl, Hate, Years

  "Become the Media". Spoken word album by Jello Biafra, October 17, 2000.

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• It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hurt, Men, Saint

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• When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Nails, Problem

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• If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Giving, Arms

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• We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

  Bill Paxton

  Art, Groups, Screenplays

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• I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

  Erwin Rommel

  Anvils

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• I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ivory, Piano, Trying

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• Enemy giants moved towards the breech, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior’s club. He yelled something to his fellow blacksmiths – probably ‘FOR POSEIDON!’ – but with his mouth full of peanut butter it sounded like, ‘PUH PTEH BUN.’ His brethren all grabbed hammers and chisels, yelled, ‘PEANUT BUTTER!’ and charged behind Tyson into battle.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Enemy, Battle

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• Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Dark, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.810, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

  Barack Obama

  Graduation, Military, Mean

  Remarks by the President at the United States Military Academy Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 28, 2014.

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• Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Use, Communism

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• The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

  Lance Morrow

  America, Police, Civil Rights

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• I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'

  Sophie Hitchon

  Girl, Athlete, London Olympics

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• When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

  Robert Kagan

  Nails, Looks, Problem

  Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.27, Vintage

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Use, Tables

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• The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!

  Millard Fuller

  Men, Ideas, Together

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• The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

  Giordano Bruno

  Teamwork, Iron, Cadence

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• Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Technology, House

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