Quotes with metal

  • An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

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  • Billy Joel A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Bill Dedman After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Saskya Pandita An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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  • Lord George Byron Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernhard Langer Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Robert South Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • William Wycherley I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Barry Sheene I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
    Barry Sheene
    British professional motorcycle racer (1950 - 2003)
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  • Ben Harper If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bernhard Langer If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Billy Collins If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bill Hybels More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Whorf My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Al Jourgensen Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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