Steel Quotes - Page 2

• Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Iron, Gold

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• Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Broken, Leaving, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

  Greg Lynn

  Motivation, Inspiration, Design

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• The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

  Antoine Rivarol

  People, Political, Rust

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• I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'

  Leslie Bibb

  Girl, Guy, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.

  Jonathan Kent

  Growing Up, Character, Men

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• No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Real, Perfect, Crucible

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• People are afraid of what they do not understand.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  People

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• Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Terror Attacks

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?

  Jonathan Kent

  Answers, Universe

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• It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

  Danielle Steel

  Taken, People, Rooms

  "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

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• There are words which cut like steel.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cutting

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• This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Creating, Giants

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• He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Politics, Ships

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.227, Vintage

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• Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Kingdoms

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.85, Bethany House

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• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Eye, Idlers, Lucky

  Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,

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• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

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

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• The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Effort, Quality, Reason Why

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• Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Reality, Mad, Magic

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

  Chino XL

  Rap, Wrestling, Hip Hop

  Song: Freestyle Rhymes

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• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving Up, Character, Persistence

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

  Chris Abani

  Kindness, Heart, Simple

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-" "Jesus," said Clary "I doubt he'd fit." "Jace." Clary was appalled.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jesus, Stars, Blessed

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Government, Hands, Order

  "The Authority Principle" in Daniel Guerin "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" (p. 90), 1980.

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