Steel Quotes - Page 17

• A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

  Mason Cooley

  Glasses, Skyscraper, Boast

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• I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

  Lakshmi

  Motivational, Nuts, Would Be

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• In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Nice, Good Friend

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• Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

  Marlo Thomas

  Firefighter, Choices, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Book, Dark

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.293, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Soldier, Battle

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [309]

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• I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sky, World, Frost

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

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• A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Book, Boys

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• In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

  Nick Flynn

  Giving, Hull, Texture

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• Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Self, Soul, Degradation

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (1995). “Live from Death Row”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Greatness, Achieve

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• I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Scratches, Pieces

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• With the supplies gathered, he went over to the stainless-steel sink and pressed the foot pedal to get the water running. While he washed his hands, he said quietly, "If I could, I would." "Excuse me?" Qhuinn pumped some suds into his palms and scrubbed all the way up his forearms. Which was overkill, but if Blay wanted him superclean, then that was what he was going to be. "If I could love a guy like that, it would be you.

  J.R. Ward

  Running, Hands, Feet

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1277, Penguin

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• Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

  Robert Jordan

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

  Ratan Tata

  Communication, Talking, Growth

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sorrow, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Stronger, Lines

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• Black Poets should live--not leap
  From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  Etheridge Knight

  Boys, Bridges, White

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Price Tag, Black

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Animal, Hair, Found Objects

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I am going to put the miners, the steel workers, and so many of our other workers that are being clobbered by the stupidity of our government's leadership - I am going to put them back to work. That includes the steel workers.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Stupidity, Back To Work

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In America, one of the biggest problems we have with China is the illegal dumping of steel and aluminum into our markets. I have fought against that as a senator. I've stood up against it as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Aluminum, Problem

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• The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

  John Keats

  Grieving, Heal, Feels

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.117, e-artnow

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• Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Lying, Doors

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• My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Fire, Hell

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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