Ploughshare Quotes & Sayings

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight. — Mortimer Collins

Flavius has never put a single question to us as to what we were. In his mind, I found, devotion and acceptance far superseded curiosity or fear. — Anne Rice

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake. — Oswald Chambers

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done. — Louisa May Alcott

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. — Thomas Mann

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament. — Friedrich Nietzsche

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether we hear a series of sounds, read a series of letters, see a series of pictures, smell a series of odors, or meet a series of people, we show a pronounced tendency to recall the items at the end of the series far better than the items at the beginning or in the middle. As such, when we look back on the entire series, our impression is strongly influenced by its final items. — Anonymous

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance. She had come with the intention of staying two days, if all went well. But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day. — Leo Tolstoy

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. — William Wordsworth

Complete control can be the death of a work. — Andy Goldsworthy

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there. — Steven Moffat

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real. — Angelo Dirks

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation. — Edward Young

You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you. — Cora Carmack