Hammers Quotes - Page 18

• If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dream, Book, Character

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

  Isaac Asimov

  Strong, Philosophical, Army

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• H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.

  Robert Higgs

  War, Responsibility, Men

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we’ve never really seen before.

  Jason Aaron

  Horse, Thinking, Long

  "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

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• The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Drawing, Design

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• We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

  Ray Wilkins

  Soccer, Coffins, Funny Soccer

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• Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

  Lee Bolman

  Confusing, Excellence, Nails

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• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fighting, Your Side, Law

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

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• I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

  Peter Weir

  Bird, Tree, Stones

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• Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Flower, Moon

  Elizabeth Goudge (1949). “Gentian Hill”

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• You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

  John Philip Sousa

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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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• All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Dollars, Nine

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• Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

  Mickey Spillane

  Beer, Cognac, Drink

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• I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the Cross, the Cross--God's hammer, God's fire.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Simple, Fire

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• At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Responsibility

  "Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Civilization, Alive

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Glowing, Voice, Rivers

  Czeslaw Milosz, “An Hour”

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• It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was a badass in Chicago before the movies ever came out. I was a badass on the football field - that's why they call me "the Hammer." I don't lean back on one particular picture, because I've done so many of them. But they all have the same common thing: I'm a badass.

  Fred Williamson

  Football, Badass, Character

  Source: torontoist.com

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• The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more.

  Gary Zukav

  Country, Business, Home

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• When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

  George Scialabba

  Wings, Nails, Looks

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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• It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Book, Writing, Men

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1898). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)”

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• I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

  Mickey Spillane

  Literature, Comic, Danger

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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