Anvils Quotes - Page 3

• Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

  Steve Rushin

  Hockey, Nhl, Style

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Patience, Blow, Tyrants

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

  Madeleine Sophie Barat

  Fire, Iron, Soul

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• I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Life, Jobs, Heart

  Dinaw Mengestu (2014). “All Our Names”, p.17, Knopf

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• When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Anxiety, Survival

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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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• And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

  Horace

  Poetry, Ill, Polished

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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 politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

  John Webster

  Fashion, Blow, Political

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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• This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Entertainment, Idiot

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• Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

  Herman E. Daly

  Reality, Growth, Hammers

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• I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Ideas, Waiting, Investment

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• The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

  A. B. Simpson

  New York, Book, Fall

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• Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Caring, Blow

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• The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

  John Buchan

  War, Church, Hammers

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• The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Hate, Ego, Enemy

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• There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

  Sara Genn

  Giving, Nudge, Universe

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• ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Poetry, Noon

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• Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, Cutting, Care

  Review of Nabokov's Lolita, 1958.

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• I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

  Freya Stark

  People, Virtue, Dislike

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

  Pindar

  Truth, Tongue

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• people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

  Margaret Halsey

  Doctors, People, Fifty

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hammers, Masters, Servant

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• You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Running, Trying, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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