Hammers Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Successful, Blow, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.288, e-artnow

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• Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

  Jeff Grubb

  Nails, Looks, Weapons

  Jeff Grubb, Gabriel Mesta, Tracy Hickman, Micky Neilson (2007). “The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.

  James Woods

  Stupid, Simple, Thinking

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• Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Feet, Gold, Boots

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• Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Fire, Mold, Praise

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• There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

  Richard Wilbur

  Morning, Honesty, Fall

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Use, Claims, Fractals

  "Fractal Finance". Yale Economic Review, 2005.

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• The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Mosquitoes, Nuclear

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• I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Giving, Political, Benefits

  "Commencement address, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts". June 8, 1958.

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• The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

  Renzo Gracie

  Sports, Mma, Secret

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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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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• Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

  Jason Statham

  Bangs, Pieces, Half

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• The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

  Thom Yorke

  Giants, Radio, Littles

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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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• When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Home, Years, Skins

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• Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

  Man Ray

  Eye, Cutting, Blow

  Roland Penrose (Sir.), Man Ray (1975). “Man Ray”, New York Graphic Society Books

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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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• Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Needs, Anvils, Sometimes

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• Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None objected, however, to wearing the hammer and sickle on a T-shirt or a hat. It was a minor observation, but sometimes, it is through just such minor observations that a cultural mood is best observed. For here, the lesson could not have been clearer: while the symbol of one mass murder fills us with horror, the symbol of another mass murder makes us laugh.

  Anne Applebaum

  People, Laughing, Would Be

  Anne Applebaum (2007). “Gulag: A History”, p.15, Anchor

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• Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Religion, Church, Doorways

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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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• 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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• My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to deviled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled.

  Katy Perry

  Religious, Eggs, House

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