Hammers Quotes - Page 6

• In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Forever, Steel

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.

  Bill McKibben

  Art, Taken, Sadness

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• If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Science, Past

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson (2010). “The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward”, p.86, Profile Books

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• Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Winning, Suffering

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• If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.

  Pablo Picasso

  Shoes, Special, Politics

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• Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Suicide, Glasses, Bye

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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, Use

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• A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Prayer, Heart, Blow

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• I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.

  Drake

  Humble, Bragging

  Song: Zone

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• An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Men, Pockets

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 24

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• Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

  John Ray

  Military, Praying

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• But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Angel, Forever, Amen

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.6263, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Blow, Criticism

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• A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

  George Orwell

  Flames, People, Desire

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Men, Doors

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• I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Rapper, Cartoon

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• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin". Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype
  I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

  MC Hammer

  Dope, Hype, Hip Hop

  Song: U Can't Touch This

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• Welcome to Atlanta
  Jack and hammers and vogues
  Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes
  Adolescents packin the fo'

  Ludacris

  Atlanta, Clothes, Hip Hop

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• Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Death, Spiritual

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.473, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Knowing, Play

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.

  Kai Greene

  Focus, Trying, Nails

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• Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

  Laurent Fignon

  Sports, Men, Sometimes

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