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Quotes About Axes

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
~ Confucius
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
That's the noise that made the Redcoats run! Mr. Paddock said to Father. Maybe, Father said, tugging his beard. But it was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes and plows that made this country. That's so, come to think of it, Mr. Paddock said.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
~ Michael Nesmith
I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs." "That sounds like us," Gundar said cheerfully.
~ John Flanagan
I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs.
~ John Flanagan
Be doubly skeptical of graphs that have two vertical axes and omit zero from either or both axes.
~ Gary Smith
Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.
~ Kenan Evren
Two other axes of conflict emerged: state centralism against regional independence and authoritarianism against the freedom of the individual. The
~ Antony Beevor
The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked. We are going to experiment , dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists.
~ Barry Hughart
The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.
~ Travis Fimmel
His brain was sticky, phrases and snatches of songs were always wedging themselves in there. Annihilation. He saw flashes of Norse barbarians swinging axes. He wondered for a second, only a second, if he'd been reincarnated, and this was some leftover memory, flittering down like ash. Then he picked up his bike and banished the idea. He wasn't ten.
~ Gillian Flynn
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
~ Gore Vidal
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
~ Gore Vidal
The fear came then. The shield wall is a terrible place. It is where a warrior makes his reputation, and reputation is dear to us. Reputation is honour, but to gain that honour a man must stand in the shield wall where death runs rampant. I had been in the shield wall at Cynuit and I knew the smell of death, the stink of it, the uncertainty of survival, the horror of the axes and swords and spears, and I feared it. And it was coming.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Guns are supposed to be dangerous Mr. Simmons, as are chain saws and axes and knives. Guns are, quite simply put, the power tools of freedom.
~ Skip Coryell
District 7. Lumber. I bet she's been tossing around axes since she could toddle.
~ Suzanne Collins
The Deluge wasn't a wave, was it? It was blind men with axes; it was the great on their knees begging not to die at the hands of idiots; it was the itch of the irrational grown to an epidemic.
~ Clive Barker
Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions available in literary criticism more generally, such as postmodernist, psychoanalytical, historicist, materialist, postcolonial, and so on.
~ Jane Goldman
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
~ Jean Cocteau
The image of the ancient fasces (bundled birch rods and axes) was already old when Rome adopted it as a symbol of state.
~ Unknown
Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs—these tools belong in patient hands.
~ John Irving
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
~ 1 Chronicles 20:3