Quotes and Sayings About Axes
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After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
-- Anne Carson -
The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.
-- Bill Konigsberg -
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.
-- Brenda Peterson -
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.
-- Carroll Smith -
This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails
-- Daniel Defoe -
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
-- David Hackworth -
I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!
-- Doug Stanhope -
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 -
I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.
-- Eloisa James -
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
-- Ernest Shackleton -
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
-- Franklin P. Adams -
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
-- Gregory Peck -
If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer -
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 -
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 -
Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.
-- Ilchi Lee -
The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.
-- Immanuel Velikovsky -
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.
-- Jared Diamond -
Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.
-- Jared Diamond -
Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.
-- Jean Klein -
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
-- Jeb Bush -
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
-- Jeffrey Kluger -
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.
-- Jeremy Narby -
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.
-- Johannes Stark -
You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.
-- John Amaechi -
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
-- Jonathan Ive
