Hewing Quotes

#1. Should we Knights, in years to come, dwindle into memory, perhaps the world will recall that in the days of our demise we stood, hewing at the fetters of captive men.

A.S. Peterson

#2. Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. [I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#4. Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.

Jeff Cooper

#5. From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

Christopher Paolini

#6. Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.

Aldo Leopold

#7. But there are other faculty here on campus who are not disposed to see notable scholarship ignored; and let it be known that, in the darkened, blood-strewn caverns of our offices, we are hewing our textbooks and keyboards into spears.

Julie Schumacher

#8. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Phillips Brooks

#9. The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

Howard Fast

#11. She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

Emily Giffin

#12. What the hell? We're all screwed up some way. At least you bathe and I don't have to fight you for chicks. In my book, that makes you all right.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Long Island is the single most segregated suburban area in the United States.

Calvin Trillin

#14. Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

Virginia Foxx

#15. The mind is like a turbulent ocean and the waves are the thoughts

Me

#16. Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because God is there with you and is preparing an army to fight for your right to live.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Alphonsus Liguori

#18. She cried like someone heartbroken.

Jojo Moyes

#19. I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

Paul Giamatti

#20. He wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

J.D. Robb

#21. As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

Bell Hooks

#22. Mrs. Gotch a wide berth - I couldn't talk to them. I could,

Henry James

#23. Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

Bo Burnham

#24. Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

Evgeny Morozov

#25. Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted.

Victoria Nuland