Top Axis Quotes
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Ernest Shackleton
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson
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.
Robert Musil
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Michael Ledeen
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
Alexander Dubcek
Thomas Carlyle 
David Rittenhouse 
Alexander Dubcek 
Henri Cartier-Bresson 
Ernest Shackleton 
Robert Musil 
Jeb Bush 
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I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Ernest Shackleton 
57% of people like this quote
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson
54% of people like this quote
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.
Robert Musil
54% of people like this quote
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Michael Ledeen
53% of people like this quote
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
Alexander Dubcek
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.
Stafford Cripps
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
Jeb Bush
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