Regrinding The Axes Quotes & Sayings

Much of what is taught in our schools and colleges today seeks to break down traditional values, and replace them with more fancy and fashionable notions, of which "a duty to die" is just one. — Thomas Sowell

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then. — Stefan Zweig

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. — Henry David Thoreau

It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned. — Peter F. Hamilton

Chivalry here took a final farewell. It had to yield to the heightened intensity of war, just as all fine and personal feeling has to yield when machinery gets the upper hand. The Europe of today appeared here for the first time on the field of battle. — Ernst Junger

Braveness isn't always loud. Sometimes it's silent. There's braveness in sacrifice and kindness. It's in doing a thing that needs to be done, even though it's hard, and even though it hurts. — Staci Hart

Expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity. — Orhan Pamuk

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. — Richard Ford

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. — Lyndon B. Johnson

It's okay to have doubts. It isn't "faith" unless you have doubts. — Steve Maraboli

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides. — Nina Fedoroff

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. — Luis Figo