Top 100 Quotes About Saws
#1. When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
Gerald Durrell
#3. The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely.
Jackie Trippier Holt
#5. ...you must wear clothes, you must honor your teachers, you must not attack fellow students' dorm rooms with chain saws.
E. Lockhart
#6. Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.
Idries Shah
#7. Well, I am glad you boys didn't try to use my saws, or we would really have a mess," Big Tim teased.
Gretchen Preston
#8. When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.
Demetri Martin
#9. These napkins are more holy than righteous, Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns.
John Cheever
#10. The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
Edward Abbey
#11. During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.
Darell Hammond
#12. I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.
Mitch Hedberg
#13. If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
Benoit Mandelbrot
#14. Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
John Leonard
#15. Perfectly happy momma goes out into the fields. she eavesdrops on herself, in case somewhere deep inside a melody rings out or a blackbird sings, but all that she hears, is only the cancer, which saws and eats away at her.
Elfriede Jelinek
#17. I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.
Wendell Berry
#18. Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches - and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment
Neal Stephenson
#19. My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#20. This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Henry Ward Beecher
#21. The wood echoed to the hoarse ringing of other saws; somewhere, very far away, a nightingale was trying out its voice, and at longer intervals a blackbird whistled as if blowing dust out of a flute. Even the engine steam rose into the sky warbling like milk boiling up on a nursery alchohol stove.
Boris Pasternak
#22. Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs - these tools belong in patient hands.
John Irving
#23. The best of you in Jahiliyyah are the best of you in Islam, as long as they have understanding. [Prophet Muhammad (SAWS
Anonymous
#24. The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.
Dallas Willard
#25. He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.
Jack London
#27. Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels
Daniel C. Dennett
#28. When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
Ethan Zuckerman
#29. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. I blamed the Bible,
when its words were not at fault,
only the way they're interpreted
by those too willing
to wield them like chain saws,
cutting others off at the knees.
Ellen Hopkins
#31. Hell is full of polite men with bone saws.
Miles Watson
#32. I saw within Its depth how It conceives
All things in a single volume bound by Love
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri
#33. If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
Euripides
#34. Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.
John Shelby Spong
#35. I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.
Sigrid Undset
#36. Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.
Chris Rock
#37. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
Morton Blackwell
#38. I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.
John F. Kerry
#39. Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
Walt Whitman
#40. I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.
Yvon Chouinard
#41. When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
Man Ray
#42. She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
Bob Seger
#43. I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.
Rufus Wainwright
#44. I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.
Bruce Springsteen
#45. Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.
Gordon Cooper
#46. I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
Alexej Von Jawlensky
#47. The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.
Christopher Columbus
#48. We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
Robert Pozen
#49. If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
J. E. H. MacDonald
#50. For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.
Julian Of Norwich
#51. I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#52. The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.
John Quincy Adams
#53. The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.
Mary Pratt
#54. I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
Jorge Luis Borges
#55. Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#56. All at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!
Frederick Franck
#57. Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
John Ruskin
#58. You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!
Marlon Brando
#59. And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
John Milton
#60. I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.
Mick Jagger
#61. I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired.
Steven Wright
#63. Just saw a woman with a t-shirt that said southern and sassy, it's all good. Well madame, I beg to differ, it is in fact, not 'all good'.
Dov Davidoff
#64. Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.
Jan Phillips
#65. I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
Harriet Martineau
#66. I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#67. I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.
Mario Sorrenti
#69. I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
David Hockney
#70. To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.
Sonia Gandhi
#71. When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.
Lou Reed
#72. I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#73. One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
James Hetfield
#74. The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
Adam Smith
#75. The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.
Kris Kristofferson
#76. My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.
Rodney Dangerfield
#77. Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".
Rob Zombie
#78. When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One
Shania Twain
#79. I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.
Costa-Gavras
#80. No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).
Jack Ma
#81. The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.
Terence Stamp
#83. I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
Robert Breault
#84. After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: I came, I saw, I conquered.
Plutarch
#85. I don't understand how IMDB works. I don't know who logs in the information. I've checked it a couple times and saw (something he was supposed to be listed in) that I wasn't in there, and thought, "Well, I'm not gonna put it in there".
Ken Marino
#86. I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible - I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.
Stephen Colbert
#87. Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.
Jamie Dimon
#88. I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.
Mark David Chapman
#89. If I ever saw one of my team-mates diving, I'd definitely have a word
Steven Gerrard
#90. The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Walter Lippmann
#91. When I saw the others like Michael, Ross Brawn and Todt renewing their contracts, I always said that I was happy to do so.
Rubens Barrichello
#93. To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.
Louis C.K.
#94. There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.
Taika Waititi
#95. Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
Lionel Trilling
#96. I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.
Burleigh Grimes
#97. I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#98. I hope she saw the passion, and no need to tell Mark Anthony about it.
Sanjaya Malakar
#99. I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.
Rumi
#100. God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.
James MacDonald
