Steel Quotes - Page 19

• The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

  Thomas Sowell

  Athlete, Income, Obsession

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• Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Despair, Relax, Care

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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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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• If you think I'm afraid of the steel cage...YOU'RE RIGHT! Please God, don't make me go into the cage!

  Stevie Richards

  Thinking, Cages, Please

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• My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Iron, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2090, Manonmani Publishers

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• In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Jobs, Order, Saint

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• When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, Character, Two

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• For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

  Frances Farmer

  Being Alone, Cells, Years

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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

  Iron, Revolution, Body

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

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• Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Fire, Catholic, Together

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• Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

  Harold Wilson

  Leader, Blades, Flash

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• In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Country, Cities, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
  [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]

  George Herbert

  Cutting, Tongue

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• The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Real, Mind, Perception

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• I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

  B. B. King

  Guitar, Hands, Play

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• Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

  Howard Zehr

  Art, Responsibility, College

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• I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Girl, Father, Home

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Words could be just as deadly as steel.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Sarah J. Maas (2014). “The Assassin's Blade: The Throne of Glass Novellas”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Iron, Musical

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• When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.

  RZA

  Wise, Men, Self

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Lay me on an anvil, O God.
  Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Prayer, Hammers, Anvils

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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