Quotes by Axes I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president. Al Franken axesiranthinking After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. Alexander Dubcek axespearlswar All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. Anne Carson axeshatedesire The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. Archimedes cylindersaxesgravity Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. August Wilhelm von Schlegel axessolitudelove It could just be a shift on the axis. Bill Cassidy axesclimate-change The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around. Bill Konigsberg axeslifepeople The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. Bill Maher axesamericapeople What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002. Bill Vaughan axesphasesmean The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers. Brenda Peterson axesprayerbelieve Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. Carroll Smith rotationaxesracing It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all. Cassandra Clare axesstrangeworld What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis! Charlie Chaplin axesstars Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right. Christine Jennings axesideasthinking Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung. Cormac McCarthy axesdreamhands This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails Daniel Defoe axesknivesdark God grinds the axes he intends to use. Dave Sim axesgrinduse That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. David Hackworth axesislamicreligious I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis. Deborah Smith axessummerschool That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom. Dennis Kucinich axesfreedomamerica123456»
