Top 152 Axis Quotes & Sayings

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

The reign of Henry VIII is the axis around which England turns.

It could just be a shift on the axis.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably.

I don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent to the first is accordingly a rotation about an axis accompanied by translation along the axis. Hence the only configurations for a chain compatible with our postulate of equivalence of the residues are helical configurations.

With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across the divide and connecting with somebody who is opposed to you on some things. They're opposed to you on one axis, which is politics, but if you go over the axis called puppies, you might find some common ground.

The 'Ponyboy' single is coming out next because it's the other bit of the pole of the record. Sort of everything I'm interested in happens on that axis - everything I'm interested in this material happens on that axis, and so I was really excited to tour 'It's Okay to Cry' and 'Ponyboy.'

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.

According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

I haven't had the opportunity to play the main 'axis of evil' character before, so 'Vincenzo' serves as another challenge to me.

The aim of RSS is to build an axis of countries like U.S., India and Israel against China.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it gives me to the option to be able to jump into fashion.

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.