Steel Quotes - Page 23

• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Fire, Sight, House

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

  Tanith Lee

  Horse, Night, Fire

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• Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.

  Anthony Crosland

  Running, Jobs, Democracy

  Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

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• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, Stubborn, Arms

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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• My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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• There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Memories, Lying, Sadness

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.111, Vintage

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• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

  Catherine Ponder

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Emotional

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• You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Friendship, Years

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011

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• Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Fire, Iron, Faithful

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• And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Dream, America, Glasses

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Faith, Process Of Change, Fear Of Failure

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• I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

  Tana French

  Baby, Strong Women, Blow

  "Faithful Place". Book by Tana French, August 19, 2010.

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• Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

  J. R. D. Tata

  May, Golden, Dough

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• You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.

  Willie Nelson

  Horse, Men, Evil

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Apples, Google

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.

  Hugo Chavez

  School, Men, Aluminum

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• I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Games, Riding

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time.

  G. E. M. Skues

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, Moving, Car

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• Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

  Gore Vidal

  Oil, Agriculture, Entrepreneur

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

  Laura Huxley

  Vocabulary, Life Is Like, Quality

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• There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music.

  Eric Church

  Country, Song, Mean

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

  Anne Truitt

  Men, Sculpture, Woods

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Beautiful, Bible, Jobs

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin

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