Iron Quotes - Page 4

• Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

  Charles de Lint

  Wall, Heart, Mind

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• Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

  Dolly Parton

  Revenge, Hate, Gentle Touch

  Song: Evening Shades

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• Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

  Hippocrates

  Fire, Medicine, Disease

  Hippocrates (1900*). “Aphorisms”, p.60, Library of Alexandria

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• I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

  St. Vincent

  Mind, Wish, Made

  Song: Marrow, Album: Actor, 2009

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• I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

  Sasha Cohen

  Food, Vegetables, Beef

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• From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Trouble, Reminders

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.7, Best Books on

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• What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Nature, Inspiration

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

  Theodor Herzl

  Palestine, Seeing

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• Iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Power, Hands, Velvet

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• I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Fighting, Greatness

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• He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

  David Lloyd George

  Sarcastic, Long, Soul

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Rain, Winter

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• When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Acting, Doe

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

  Howard Bloom

  Stars, Science, Blood

  Howard Bloom (2000). “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century”, Wiley

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• What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Wall, Drawing

  H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

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• Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Fire, Light

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.316

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• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Gold

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• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dirty, Heart, Science

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• As great Pythagoras of yore,
  Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
  And hearing the hammers, as they smote
  The anvils with a different note,
  Stole from the varying tones, that hung
  Vibrant on every iron tongue,
  The secret of the sounding wire.
  And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Doors, Secret, Wire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.105

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• In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shows that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Giving, Atoms

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

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• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Believe, Heart

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• Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Powerful, Blow, Fire

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press

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• No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

  Isaac Babel

  Life, Heart, Babel

  1932 Guy de Maupassant.

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• We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Steel, Use

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