Steel Quotes - Page 13

• What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, Gunpowder, Cost

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• The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Past, Car, Waiting

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

  Mitt Romney

  America, United States, Dynamics

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

  John L. Lewis

  Agreement, Organization, Corporations

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

  Queen Latifah

  Fields, Magnolias, Julia

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• Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

  Mother Jones

  Heart, Men, White

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• When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Wire, Pounds

  "'Physics Of The Future': How We'll Live In 2100?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2011.

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Fool, Dupes

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Manufacturing is still very important to us, but we are much more diversified state. And furthermore, anybody that says the steel mills are coming back to Youngstown is not telling the truth. They're not coming back. You could have some aspects of advanced manufacturing appear.

  John Kasich

  Important, Telling The Truth, States

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is, but so much so that it overwhelms both sense and the senses. I aspire to something about his work, that imbues his poems, though I'm not sure I could say what that is. A purity, maybe, the kind of purity that comes from being beaten, like steel.

  Dorianne Laux

  Smell, Feelings, Kind

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• Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Heart, Decision, Weakness

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• The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

  Janet Flanner

  Moving, Passion, Paper

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• I will be steel!
  I will build a steel bridge over my need!
  I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
  But my future is a secret.
  It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Strength, Heart, Bridges

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Mind, Black

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• If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Technology, Looks

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Spiders, Links, Lines

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• As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

  Josh Billings

  Adversity, Forever, Sparks

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• Of course people are angry. Generation upon generation had jobs at steel mills or whatever - things were going on and it looked like it would always be that way. And then there's these cataclysmic changes and people find themselves out on their arse and they're angry and they want answers. But one thing that's for sure is that those answers will not come in the form of Donald J. Trump.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, People, Answers

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
  Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
  All many be well.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heart, Stubborn

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1841). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,”, p.494

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• In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Bridges, Space

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

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• O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Struggle, Angel

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Order, Office, Pittsburgh

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