Iron Quotes - Page 18

• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

  Joseph Addison

  Hard Work, Character, Men

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my …  chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Hair, Gentleman

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Greek

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• I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind.

  W. G. Sebald

  Wall, Broken, Mind

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• O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

  William Blake

  Dark, Winter, Doors

  William Blake (1953). “Selected poetry and prose”, Random House Inc

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Skulls

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• I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mean, Leaving, Feelings

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• When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

  Red Barber

  Baseball, Player, Balls

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• People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, America, People

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• As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Fire, Glowing

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

  Jared Diamond

  Ignorance, Past, Age

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• Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

  Bill Mollison

  Differences, Stupidity, Use

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• An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

  Eliphas Levi

  Flower, Break, Chains

  "Transcendental Magic".

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• There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

  E. Nesbit

  Strong, Real, Glasses

  E. Nesbit (1907). “The Enchanted Castle”, p.170, Lulu.com

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• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

  R. Scott Bakker

  War, Mean, Dark

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press

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• I was a heavy heart to carry
  My beloved was weighed down
  My arms around his neck
  My fingers laced to crown.
  I was a heavy heart to carry
  My feet dragged across ground
  And he took me to the river
  Where he slowly let me drown
  My love has concrete feet
  My love's an iron ball
  Wrapped around your ankles
  Over the waterfall

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Rivers, Feet

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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 Chamisso

  Men, Wings, Despair

  Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  College, Watches, Woods

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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• I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

  Lynn Barber

  Oil, Giving, Want

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• I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

  Kabir Bedi

  Men, Hair, Long

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• To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Trust In God, Easy

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• I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

  Rumi

  Enormous, Magnet, Resisting

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• Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Use

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.32, Bantam

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• High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

  Lucius Beebe

  Philosophy, Fall, Dark

  Lucius Morris Beebe (1966). “The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq”

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