Nail Hammered Quotes & Sayings

Tim Minchin's musings on Tony, the first 'fish' ever to have feet:
Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his brand new feet on the brink of the beginnings of mankind as we know it ... if he could look forward just a few short ... hundreds of millions of years ... to see one of his descendants ... an Israeli Jew by the name of Jesus, having a nail hammered through his feet ... the very feet that Tony provided him with, as a punishment for having a, sort of, schizophrenic discourse with a God who was created by Mankind to explain the existence of feet in the absence of the knowledge of the existence of Tony. — Tim Minchin

There is a Japanese proverb that translates as 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. — Jim Korkis

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. — Vivienne Westwood

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone. — Brion Gysin

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! — Slavoj Zizek

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered. — Luis Alberto Urrea

The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The tallest nail gets hammered down first. — Anonymous

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning. — Pattiann Rogers

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future - nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after. — Eckhart Tolle

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. — Jason Collins

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good. — Charles Spurgeon

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull. — Mark Lawrence

Her words were like the hammer. My stance was of a nail. I didn't need those callous words on my once strong shell. Hammered. Hammered. Words on my shoulder blades. All of my great feelings concave. — Antonia Perdu

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. — Brad Henry

Only remember that cities, too, are like human beings. They are not made of stones and wood, solely. They are of flesh and bone. They bleed when they are hurt.
Every unlawful construction is a nail hammered into the heart of the Instambul. Remember to pity a wounded city the way you pity a wounded person. — Elif Shafak

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion. — Chuck Palahniuk

A good nail does not fear being hammered. — Rita Zahara

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. — Francoise Sagan

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds. — Ivan Panin

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. — Javan

Some cultures, for instance, are collectivist; others are individualistic. Collectivist cultures, like Japan and other Confucian nations, value social harmony more than any one person's happiness. Individualistic cultures, like the United States, value personal satisfaction more than communal harmony. That's why the Japanese have a well-known expression: "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down." In America, the nail that sticks out gets a promotion or a shot at American Idol. We are a nation of protruding nails. — Eric Weiner

Sometime in my ministry, I am going to gather up enough courage to have a testimony time where the only thing we'll share is our failures. — Charles R. Swindoll

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart. — Dharma Mittra

Borrowing a hammer from Walker Lauren, she pounded the tickets into the office door with a nail. Hawke, passing by, helpfully held the tickets in place while she hammered the nail. He didn't say a word, his expression so bland it was clear he was highly amused. — Nalini Singh

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. — Patrick Jones

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church. — Leonard Ravenhill

They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down — Daniel H. Wilson