Iron Quotes - Page 26

• Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

  Austin O'Malley

  Liberty, Chains, Shops

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• Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

  Alain de Botton

  Velvet, Gloves, Fists

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I've conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I'm never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

  Fabolous

  Artist, Becoming The Best, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

  Clare of Assisi

  Strength, Body, Stones

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• The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Country, Horse, Cowboy

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• It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Love Is, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1166, Wordsworth Editions

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• O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

  William Blake

  Angel, Writing, Hands

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.

  Bill Bryson

  Fall, Sadness, Self

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• 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.

  James G. Frazer

  Past, Savages, Steps

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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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 Marvell

  Running, Tears, Balls

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)

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• It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

  Jessica Alba

  Careers, Choices, Hot

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• Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Fall, Destiny, Men

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• Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

  Elinor Glyn

  Fire, Delay, Return

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• The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

  Stephen Spender

  Dark, Journey, Light

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

  Stuart Chase

  Fall, Light, Iron Will

  Stuart Chase (1962). “The Proper Study of Mankind”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Rights, Giants

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.261, 谷月社

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• Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.

  Jim Hightower

  Real, Party, Government

  "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold - and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Heart, Feet

  "Tortured For Christ". Book by Richard Wurmbrand, June 1940.

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• If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.

  Terry Eagleton

  Law, Class, Middle

  1993 In the London Review of Books, 2 Dec

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• Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sheep, Long, Wool

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

  Gerald Massey

  Life, Wheels, Mark

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228

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• I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Men, Thinking, Kind

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• 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.

  Helen Clark

  Sorry, Mean, Kids

  "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme" by David Barber, Asia-Pacific News, March 26, 2009.

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• Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

  William Empson

  Men, Sea, Space

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

  Nancy Friday

  Mother, Believe, Love You

  1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.

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