Quotes About Chiseling

#1. Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Dean Koontz

#2. Was. I found he usually wanted a free guest pass for whoever was with him instead of paying the six bucks. This chiseling behavior helped me realize that most gym fees are a scam and only suckers pay them. I

Tina Fey

#3. It's simple: To say anything about the nature of things, you must attend to the facts, facts in their original form. The trouble with knowledge is that it keeps chiseling things away.

Mencius

#4. In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Bruce Lee

#5. I sometimes feel," the president wrote, "that the world problems are getting worse instead of better. In our own country, however, in spite of sniping, 'chiseling' and growling by the extreme right and by the extreme left, we are actually putting people back to work and raising values.

Erik Larson

#6. A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.

Garry Fitchett

#7. It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn't allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we'll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#9. Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?

Ann Patchett

#10. Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.

Seth Godin

#11. A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. We continuously enhance our knowledge base be it latest in technology, market scenario or customer requirements.

UAE Exchange

#13. ...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

Elizabeth Bishop

#14. A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

#15. Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Tom Hiddleston

#16. I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

John Barrowman

#17. I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

Dale Carnegie