Iron Quotes - Page 23

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Storm, Rust

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, Wall, War

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

  Robert Montgomery

  Uplifting, Ocean, Feet

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

  Lonnie Donegan

  Pigs, Fooled

  Song: Rock Island Line

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Giving, Limits

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• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Negativity, Feelings, Suffering

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Liberty, Return

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Three, Links, Chains

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Home, Fire, Painful Experiences

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• All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Order, Atmosphere

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Strong, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Taken, Twilight

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Sea, Bridges

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.138, University of Virginia Press

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• God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Water, Railroads

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

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• As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Men, Fire

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• Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

  Herman Melville

  Hands, People, Tyranny

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.90, Penguin

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• The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

  Sophocles

  Strength, Fire, Ends

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

  Rumi

  Teaching, Black, Cleansing

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Swings, Guy

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• Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Loyalty, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

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• Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

  Mao Zedong

  Blood, History, Historical

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.27, University of Illinois Press

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• A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.

  Mohammed Dib

  Children, Men, Expression

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• Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Steel, Today, Revolution

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