Iron Quotes - Page 3

• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Storm

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• We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

  Ronnie Wood

  People, Trying, Machines

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  Natan Sharansky

  Generations, Literature, Transformation

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• But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

  Liam Neeson

  Hands, Fists, Grew Up

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• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Band, Rubber, Rubber Bands

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• The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.

  Loren Eiseley

  Blood, Brain, Savages

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• I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Jobs

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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• Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Blessing, Men, Rocks

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Fashion, Machines, Earth

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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• I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Dream, Jesus

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's womanising ways return to haunt him" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2011.

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• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

  Aristotle

  Gold, Pieces, Matter

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1482, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Bodybuilding, Blow, Air

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• The second mouse gets the cheese!

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Witty, Waking Up Every Morning

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• To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  1987 Interview, ABC TV, 18 Mar.

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• I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

  Robert Plant

  New York, Butterfly, Denver

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• You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Want, Conservative

  Speech at Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, England, 10 Oct. 1980 See Christopher Fry 1

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• Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Baby, Motivational Sports

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• What Britain needs is an iron lady.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Needs, Britain, Iron Lady

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• There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

  George Fownes

  Knowledge, Science, Civilization

  George Fownes (1845). “Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical”, p.224

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• I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

  Cat Cora

  Kids, Successful, Artist

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• But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mets

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1401, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Courses

  "Human, All Too Human".

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• Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Defeat, Iron Lady

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