Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground."
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Barack Obama
Politician
"Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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"I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."
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"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
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"Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails."
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"Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail."
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"Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail."
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"There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe."
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"If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail."
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"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."
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"Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects."
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"He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail."
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"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
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"I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm."
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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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"The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart."
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"Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will"
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"Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail."
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"To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."
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"To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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"Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating."
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