Quotes About Hammer

Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency

Language functions with respect to thought as the body does with respect to perception...Some words only come forth in us when we have need of them...As an instrument, language is not like a hammer that has a limited number of uses. It is more like a piano, from which one can draw an infinite number of melodies.

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

Borrowing a hammer from Walker Lauren, she pounded the tickets into the office door with a nail. Hawke, passing by, helpfully held the tickets in place while she hammered the nail. He didn't say a word, his expression so bland it was clear he was highly amused.

Time. Sorrow. Evil. All such things are hammers. And only the anvil of eternity defies their blows.

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!