Flint Quotes

46 quotes by 37 authors

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not… — Henry Ward Beecher
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats. — Victor Borge
I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of… — Pablo Neruda
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. — Jack Butler Yeats
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning,… — Jack Handey
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and… — M. John Harrison
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again… — Edward Everett Hale
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close,… — Nichiren
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint. — Sid Waddell
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few… — Edward Thomas
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our… — Maturin Murray Ballou
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,… — Charles Caleb Colton
At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will… — Crazy Horse

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