Iron Quotes - Page 40

• Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Gold, Slavery, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.453, Manonmani Publishers

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• Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Eye, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Men, Hands

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 1 (1839)

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• And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hurt, Pain, Boys

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.178, Penguin

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• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  Scott Putesky

  Kids, Different, Band

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• The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Government, Agriculture

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• Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Desire, Reason, Filling

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Hands, Law

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• Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Negative, Rust, Research

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.282, Penguin Books India

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Feet, Awful

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• Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

  Howard Pyle

  Criticism, Suggestions

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• My wife has a whim of iron.

  Oliver Herford

  Wife, Whim, My Wife

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in "Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26" (p. 4)". 1943.

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• Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Memories, Intuition, Hot

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• When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Ideas, Insight, Filing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Past, World, Territory

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, Work

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

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• Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Taken, Army, Men

  "Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders". Book by David Johnson, 1978.

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• Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Father, Blood, Thank God

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Past, Ideas

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough”, p.560

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• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Water, Understanding

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• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Block, Thinking, Flames

  Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235

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• All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Real, School

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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Moving, Men

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 180), March 6, 1995.

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• When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Dream, Determination

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• We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

  Jill Tarter

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  "Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. July 23, 2012.

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