Iron Quotes - Page 6

• I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Memories, Three, Bars

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• I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Pussy, Tails

  Jerome K. Jerome (2010). “Three Men in a Boat”, Giunti Editore

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• God is an iron... and that's a hot one.

  Spider Robinson

  Hot

  Spider Robinson (1981). “Time travelers strictly cash”

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• When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Player, Guy

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• The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Hot, Faces

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• Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Blessed, Offering, Mind

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

  Clara Barton

  War, Rain, Heart

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• May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Israel, May

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285”, p.690, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

  Scott Lynch

  Wall, Angel, Bars

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• Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

  Adrian Lyne

  Interesting, Intuition, Bumps

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• Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

  Joseph Stalin

  Water, Different, Fine Words

  Joseph Stalin (1953). “Works”

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• Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

  Maya Angelou

  Window, Used, Chains

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.32, Bantam

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• When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Attitude, Butterfly, Romance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy

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• For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

  Jon Spaihts

  Writing, Successful, Fire

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me."

  Clark Gregg

  Book, Men, Weak Spots

  Source: collider.com

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• To go from Jon Favreau for Iron Man 1 and 2 to Kenneth Branagh for Thor and the very different world of Thor, it's about how to adapt to Coulson in a different setting and a different world while, at the same time, still have him be a part of the same world.

  Clark Gregg

  Men, Different, World

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• INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Water, Intellectual, Ink

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hands, Tyrants, People

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.447, Courier Corporation

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• While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Eight, Numbers

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• In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

  Ellen Goodman

  Revolution, Steel, Body

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron.

  Rudolf Bing

  Sweet, Missing, Dimples

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• Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

  Roy Jenkins

  Government, Sides, Conspiracy

  Roy Jenkins (1985). “Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance”, Secker & Warburg

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• The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Ideas, Giving

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Blood, Order

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