20 Axis Quotes for You to Enjoy

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. Jeffrey Kluger

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

World Power Absolute Sword Axis

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

Will Lead He Putin Authoritarian Regimes Creating Axis

Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent. Alain de Botton

Love Long First Party Once Parent Both Adulthood Were End Child May Different Want Loved Mean Each Why Axis

If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis. Daniel H. Pink

Work You People World Made Half Think Other Relate Incredible Our Spend Window About Variety Stuff Economy Hours Becomes How Least Subject Waking Endlessly Human Just Human Beings Working Who Fascinating Whole Works Beings Each Things Axis

In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time. David Rittenhouse

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular. Helen Sharman

Day You Sunset Together Darkness Every Faster Earth Earth Day See Could Dawn Towards Lightness Hours Look Periods Because Around Were Times Than Often Which Meant Spectacular Axis

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis. Herbert A. Simon

Man Think Earth Ancestors Machines Darwin Argued Arguing He Shares Fix Same Common Galileo Monkeys Axis

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually. Ira Glass

You Experience Better Everything Books Brown Rethink Idea Nobody Major Were Off Stories Movies Really Your Disoriented Actually Axis

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

Morning History World September One Morning Axis

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. Max Heindel

Degree Revolution Every Considerably Earth Minutes Rises Thus New Because May Differ Even Twins Four Axis

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

Every Located Sign Linguistic Succession Axes Axis Two

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). Serge Schmemann

Me Evil Humiliated Back Borrow Struck More Could Longer Identifying Insulted George His George W George W. Bush List Bush Injured Axis

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.' Sophie

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth. Sylvia Plath

I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes. W. Bruce Cameron

Day Needs Me Man Celebrate Gift Giving Shoes Think Appropriate Earth Earth Day Favorite One Thing Spin Dirt Never Clear Since Like Know Sort Least Shoe Maybe Owns Store Holidays Jar Creates Who Even Pair Why Thing Axis

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