Iron Quotes - page 2

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them. View quote
William Hazlitt
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
They wanted this iron fist to command them. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
God is an iron... and that's a hot one. View quote
Spider Robinson
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron. View quote
James Frazer
While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it. View quote
Anastas Mikoyan
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects. View quote
Theo van Doesburg
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind. (Robert Jordan)
If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested. View quote
Helen Clark
"Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me- and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, and every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this "must." A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating for a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath - and dying. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. (Cassandra Clare)
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed. View quote
Ted Hughes