Quotes of: Anvil Keyword

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Thomas Malory

I will not move an inch; I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking

Munia Khan

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

John Webster

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Aeschylus

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

The Floating Island

ZENITH NOON beats out on its solar anvil the rays of light

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Edwin Markham

We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel, Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.

The White Devil

Snowmageddon. Dirty glacial clouds hammered the city's anvil. On the District of Columbia’s northwestern edge, gusts of snow rolled across the Park Road Bridge like volcanic ash.

Rock Creek Park

It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

Pallam Raju

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

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Bradstreet

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Charles H. Spurgeon

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading...

Alfred Nobel

Jake Sully: [collector's extended cut] I became a marine for the hardship, to be hammered on the anvil of life. I told myself I can pass any test a man can pass.

Avatar

...Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future.

Amazing Peace-PI

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Will Turner: [arriving back at the workshop, his boss is still fast asleep] Right where I left you. [notices a hammer on the anvil] Will Turner: Not where I left *you*.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

A moment later the scowling face of Admiral Jellico appeared on the screen. He looked as ill-humored as ever. Privately, Calhoun felt that somebody should send an away team into Jellico's ass, to determine just what had crawled up there and died year...

Stone and Anvil

We could use all the blessings we could get. The impact of what we were about to do hit me like an anvil on Wile E. Coyote's head. We were heading out to stop Satan's son and save the world from certain destruction. Piece of cake.

Hollyweird

My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting ...

Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory