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Quotes About Axe

It was daylight. I wondered dispassionately if I might be getting a sunburn, but I rarely burned anyway, and the idea in the present state of affairs, like worrying about a hangnail while you are being chased by an axe murderer, seemed so ludicrous I couldn't be bothered.
~ Robin McKinley
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one!
~ Anonymous
I do have a Viking axe by the bed if I need to whack someone... My wife bought me a Viking axe - the axe side curls down so you can grab the adversary around the neck and you can use it to climb walls, as a grappling hook.
~ Mike Leach
Soñé que traducía al Marqués de Sade a golpes de hacha. Me había vuelto loco y vivía en un bosque.
~ Roberto Bolano
You can see me!" I gave him a nod and a smile. "I am not a ghost!" he announced. I shrugged at him. "Not yet," I said softly. I hefted the axe meaningfully.
~ Robin Hobb
Wait, wait, wait," he said, and everyone stopped to listen. "This is about those children I murdered, isn't it?" He laughed. "Listen," he said. "If you spare the axe, you spoil the child.
~ Joey Comeau
Then his mouth fell open. A dwarf—a real dwarf, with an axe and a beard and a mail shirt, and all!
~ Ed Greenwood
And then I feel the Big Sadness coming on, like there's a shiny and sharp axe blade buried inside my chest. The only way I can stay alive is to remain absolutely motionless so instead of whispering Dear God how could you do this to me, I only whisper Amen
~ Anthony Doerr
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wie lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.
~ Franz Kafka
Wir brauchen Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wir lieber hätten als uns, wie wenn wir in die Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns
~ Franz Kafka
Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wie lieber hatten als und, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. (An Oskar Pollak, 27.01.1904)
~ Franz Kafka
The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.
~ Phil Anselmo
Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night To be cut down by the sharp axe of light,—
~ Edward Thomas
One fire was on his spirit, one resolve - To send the keen axe to the root of wrong, Clearing a free way to the feet of God, The eyes of conscience testing every stroke.
~ Edwin Markham
Aunt Hyacinth's protections around the house would stop a spirit. They wouldn't do anything against an axe murderer except make him queasy, which didn't seem like it would be much of a deterrent. I mean, a strong stomach probably came with the job.
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.
~ Margaret Atwood
This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
~ Philip Larkin
Als hij dat niet wil, dan zal ik mijn bijl als argument moeten gebruiken.' 'Een interessante opvatting van diplomatie heb jij,' zei Crowley met een ironisch lachje. Farrel keek hem bloedserieus aan. 'Ik gebruik eerst de platte kant, niet de scherpe.' Crowley knikte. 'Ja, dat is op een bepaalde manier wel diplomatie te noemen.
~ John Flanagan
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No offence, Svengal." Svengal shrugged. "None taken. It's a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.
~ John Flanagan
Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.
~ John Marsden
I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It must have been a thousand years ago In some old mountain sawmill of Japan. A horde of excess poets and unwed girls And I that night prowled Tokyo like a bear Tracking the human future Of intelligence and despair.
~ Gary Snyder
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
~ B. B. King