There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
Quotes about hew (10 Quotes)
Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak.
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. Save Me the Waltz, 1932
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.
And remember when He made you successors after Ad and settled you in the land-- you make mansions on its plains and hew out houses in the mountains-- remember therefore Allah's benefits and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief.
'What sort of man or woman shall I be what kind of life shall I propose and hew out ' The answer one frames to this question is his personal ideal, and will exercise a potent influence upon the development of his character and the direction of his condu.