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I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. -- Gregory Peck
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. -- Roman Jakobson
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind. -- Michael Nesmith
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. -- Thor Heyerdahl
The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive. -- Steve Jobs
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. -- Jeb Bush
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships -- Jorge Luis Borges
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence. -- Reginald Heber
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. -- Robert Breault
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. -- Anne Carson
You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets. -- John Amaechi
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. -- David Hackworth
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis. -- Haruki Murakami
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. -- Thomas Carlyle
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. -- Nhat Hanh
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! -- Louise Bogan
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon? -- Peter Tosh
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. -- Stafford Cripps
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis. -- Shan Sa
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying. -- C. S. Lewis
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. -- Heywood Broun
I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard. -- James Cosmo
We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes. -- Teresa Medeiros
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. -- Gore Vidal
One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass. -- Rob Manuel
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp. -- Louis MacNeice
God grinds the axes he intends to use. -- Dave Sim
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. -- Max Lucado
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger. -- Confucius
Thanks for everything." "As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have. "Stay sharp," Carter told him. -- Rick Riordan
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. -- Horace Walpole
Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex. -- George R. R. Martin
Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in AtatÃ¼rk's time. -- Kenan Evren

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