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Tag Name "Anvil" (43)

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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
Ramana Maharshi
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.
Sacha Gervasi
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people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
Margaret Halsey
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Harsh counsels have no effect they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
Herman E. Daly
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
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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
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T. D. Jakes
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Carl Sandburg
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I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.
Joel Greenblatt
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark
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A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
Saint Dominic
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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
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I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
Erwin Rommel
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
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Whether it's a guy living in an airport like Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or Anvil in Toronto, or Alfred Hitchcock who's imprisoned by his success there is a common thread to all these characters. I don't know why I'm particularly drawn to it. It's been pointed out to me, and I don't understand it myself.
Sacha Gervasi
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
Lloyd Alexander
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