Quotes About Chisel

Interpretations, like the sculptor's chisel, would be used to target and then chip away at the imprisoning defenses, exposing the patient's inner psychic reality. This inner psychic reality, essentially driven by pleasure-seeking fantasy, pulled the patient away from facing what Freud had referred to as "the brick wall of reality" that would challenge unacceptable fantasies and free the entangled energy for more realistic projects.

The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.

I joy that Death is this Democrat; and hopeless of all other real and permanent democracies, still hug the thought, that though in life some heads are crowned with gold, and some bound round with thorns, yet chisel them how they will, head-stones are all alike.

Davos had often heard it said that the wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel as common masons did, but worked stone with fire and magic as a potter might work clay.

That's the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.

Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continuously.

Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future.

Alma used the word settled the way less genteel people used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

Alma used the word settled the way the less genteel used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face.......

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Rendre la vertu aimable, le vice odieux, le ridicule saillant. Voilà le projet de tout homme qui prend la plume, le pinceau et le ciseau.

You became a memory everyone could share / and my work in this life is to chisel at memory.

That's the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.