Quotes About Iron
A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.
~ Tommy Cooper
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When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.
~ Thomas Dunn English
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
~ William Blake
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The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
~ Emma Goldman
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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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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.
~ Ovid
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
~ Robert Jordan
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The primordial gases accounted for 98 percent of the material in the cloud from which our sun formed (hydrogen made up ca. 72 percent; helium, ca. 27 percent). But many other elements were also present, including carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (which now account for 1.4 percent of all matter in the universe), and also iron, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and neon (which account for another 0.5 percent).
~ David Christian
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Earth, for example, is made up of oxygen (almost 50 percent) and smaller amounts of iron (19 percent), silicon (14 percent), magnesium (12.5 percent)
~ David Christian
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Under what circumstances does such outrage thrive? The territory of Utah, glorious as it may be, spiked by granite peaks and red jasper rocks, cut by echoing canyons and ravines, spread upon a wide basin of gamma grass and wandering streams, this land of blowing snow and sand, of iron, copper, and the great salten sea.
~ David Ebershoff
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Slave-trading seems to have been coeval with the knowledge of iron. The monuments of Egypt show that this curse has venerable antiquity. Some people say, "If so ancient, why try to stop an old established usage now?" Well, some believe that the affliction that befel the most ancient of all the patriarchs, Job, was small-pox. Why then stop the ravages of this venerable disease in London and New York by vaccination?
~ David Livingstone
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With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.
~ Vasily Rozanov
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Historical experience is written in blood and iron.
~ Mao Zedong
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But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.
~ Lu Xun
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The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
~ Charles Spurgeon
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The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.
~ Bill Cosby
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A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it's just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what's theirs.
~ Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
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I gave him a pleasant smile, which said, If I could see your intestines very slowly embracing a large wooden drum rotated by means of a small iron crank turned gently and softly by myself, I should be extraordinarily happy
~ E.E. Cummings
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It was a whim of hers. But Mrs. Madden was a woman of iron whim; and her husband had long ago learned to obey her
~ Albert Payson Terhune
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love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will
~ Alexander MacLaren
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Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.
~ Alexei Sayle
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I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.
~ Fred Couples
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The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
~ John Lothrop Motley
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