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  • There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

    Bible   Believe   Men  
  • The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

    Brother   Men   Iron  
  • This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

    Samuel Smiles (2010). “Men of Invention and Industry”, p.87, BoD – Books on Demand
  • Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

    Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”
  • The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

    Iron   Steel   Heat  
  • Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

    Persistence   Iron   Long  
    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 10, 2009
  • It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

  • What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

    Ocean   Moon   Dna  
  • Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

    Iron   Yellow   Nerves  
    Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt
  • I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

    Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard
  • For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

    Book   Hero   Men  
    Source: screenrant.com
  • Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

    Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

    Wall   Angel   Iron  
  • In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
  • (Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

    War   Mean   Blood  
  • Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron.

    Two   Iron   Jason  
  • I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

    Eye   Iron   Pouring  
    "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.
  • Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

    July   Air   Iron  
    Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press
  • The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

    Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications
  • Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

    Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books
  • INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press
  • Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

    Iron   Window   Used  
    Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.32, Bantam
  • Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

    Loyalty   Winning   Iron  
  • To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

  • Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

    Law   Iron   Atheism  
    Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.282, eKitap Projesi
  • Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

    Dog   Fall   Wine  
  • I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.

    Morning   Eye   Dark  
    Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”
  • Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

    Thinking   Hands   Iron  
    Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

    Ocean   Iron   Feet  
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