Ironclads Quotes

• Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Gun, Metaphysical, Arbiter

  Bertrand Russell (1994). “Philosophical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Political, Politics, Accomplished

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• The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

  Anne Tyler

  Morning, Writing, Trying

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• It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

  Ian Tattersall

  Law, Unintended Consequences, Human Experience

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• And then, also, when you're doing something that doesn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to, like, ironclad it to make sure it gets through, you know?

  Mark Ronson

  Sound, Needs, Radio

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sex, Tacky, Unicorn

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• After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Years, Trying, Liberty

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• The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Victory, Hull

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.166, Penguin

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• My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.

  Al Gore

  Community, Important, Bags

  "Campaign 2000's Joke-Off". www.slate.com. October 20, 2000.

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• "We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun.".

  Kim Harrison

  Fun, Night, Risk

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• I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

  Julia Roberts

  Mom, Home, Doe

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• There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

  Christian Wiman

  Artist, People, Mind

  Interview with Anthony Domestico, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 16, 2014.

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• Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, May

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 in Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.

  Itzhak Bentov

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

  Itzhak Bentov (2000). “A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation”, p.78, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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