Quotes with iron-clanking

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  • Wendell L. Willkie In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Aldous Huxley Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Charles V Iron hand in a velvet glove.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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  • Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Benito Mussolini Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
    Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Make the iron hot by striking it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • William Shakespeare Soft pity enters an iron gate.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard Lovelace Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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  • Bill Mollison Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use or value them creatively.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 4.7
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Carl Sandburg The name of an iron man goes round the world.
    It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
    Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Heinrich Heine The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Adrian Lyne Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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