Quotes and Sayings About Iron
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
-- Adam PallySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
-- Adelbert von ChamissoSource : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.47, Mondial
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What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
-- Adelbert von ChamissoSource : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”
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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
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Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
-- Adrian Lyne -
The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.
-- Al Barkow -
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
-- Anastas MikoyanSource : "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" by Michael Kort, (p. 172), 2001.
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Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)
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But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
-- Andrew SolomonSource : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.
-- Ann M. Dibb -
From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and narrow path-and hold tight until we reach our ultimate goal of eternal life with our Heavenly Father. Nephi promises that those who hold fast to the iron rod"would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction"
-- Ann M. Dibb -
If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."
-- Ann M. Dibb -
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill her own dream-that is, her own destruction and death? And, in some surreptitious way, isn't she in charge of them? Doesn't she bend them to her will?
-- Anne Desclos -
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
-- AntisthenesSource : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
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it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.
-- Ardyth KennellySource : Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”
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The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.
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My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali