Iron Quotes
789 Iron quotes by 608 unique authors
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In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain…
— Harry Elmer Barnes
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What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go…
— Tony Abbott
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As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not…
— William Howard Taft
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My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that…
— Richard Russo
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By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have…
— Hugh McCulloch
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If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some…
— Jack Handey
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits…
— Joseph Addison
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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…
— Clara Barton
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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron…
— Margaret Thatcher
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a…
— Gregory Benford
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry…
— W G Sebald
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy…
— William Blake
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I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it…
— Unknown Author
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I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just…
— Bruce Dickinson
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
— Red Barber
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
— Lakshmi Mittal
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People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on…
— Gabor Szabo
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Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a…
— Brian Tracy
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As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
— Jared Diamond
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Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
— Bill Mollison
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A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
— Eliphas Levi
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There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that…
— E. Nesbit
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither…
— R. Scott Bakker
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