Iron Quotes

789 Iron quotes by 608 unique authors

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will… — Kurt Vonnegut
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires… — Andrew Marvell
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. — Isaac Babel
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That sounds terrific" I… — Robert B. Parker
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. — Jeanette Winterson
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. — Spider Robinson
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon… — Virginia Woolf
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never… — Charles Dickens
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and… — Simone Weil
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let… — Jules Verne
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. — Sherwood Anderson
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the… — C.S. Lewis
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may… — James M. Barrie
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus. — Dean Young
There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on… — Stephen King
Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. — Pablo Neruda
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. — Augusten Burroughs
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette… — Sloane Crosley
So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight… — Gerard Way
Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in… — William Shakespeare

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