Iron Quotes
789 Iron quotes by 608 unique authors
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When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the…
— George Orwell
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For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
— Robert Jordan
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She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement…
— Albert Camus
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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central…
— Edward Abbey
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So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
— George R. R. Martin
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron…
— Don DeLillo
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She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to…
— Cassandra Clare
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When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.
— Cassandra Clare
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Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.
— Scott Lynch
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I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
— Italo Calvino
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Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned…
— Cassandra Clare
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Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
— David Gemmell
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I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold
— Unknown Author
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her…
— Victor Hugo
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The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
— Friedrich Schiller
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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their…
— Adolf Hitler
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Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g.…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's…
— Ilona Andrews
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Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and…
— George R. R. Martin
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I will see to this; you see to your sister. Be quick about it. It won’t be long before I come for you, and you’d…
— Sylvia Day
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It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just…
— Rachel Caine
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I've got a nine iron that says otherwise.
— Kiersten White
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