Quotes by Anvils I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. Angie Harmon anvilscartoonwaiting We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! Charles Schumer anvilshammersgun The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. Charles Spurgeon anvilsopinionmen The anvil is not afraid of the hammer. Charles Spurgeon anvilsnot-afraidhammers Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. Claude Adrien Helvetius anvilshammerscriticism We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult. Daniel Gillies anvilshardshiptaught Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. Elizabeth Haydon anvilssteelpeople One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. Emile Zola anvilsstyleterrible It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. Emily Dickinson anvilshammers I would rather be the hammer than the anvil Erwin Rommel anvilshammers I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. Freya Stark anvilsvirtuepeople In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer. George Orwell anvilshammersreal Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. Hubert H. Humphrey anvilsgovernmentpresident Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. Ignatius of Loyola stand-firmanvilsfirmness And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace anvilsillpoetry Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? Isaac Newton anvilsapplesthinking I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil. Joel Greenblatt anvilswaitingideas You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe anvilshammersmasters This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils. John Calvin anvilsentertainmentfall The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. Leland Stanford anvilshammerscountry12»
