Anvils Quotes

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

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.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

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.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

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.

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

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.