Jack London Quotes, Iron Quotes, Mad Quotes

But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Wall Quotes , Iron Quotes

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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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.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Iron Quotes , Window Quotes

I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

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I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wind Quotes , Iron Quotes

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Iron Quotes , Needs Quotes

A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Heart Quotes , Iron Quotes

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Iron Quotes , Doors Quotes

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Iron Quotes

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Iron Quotes , History Quotes

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Iron Quotes

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Iron Quotes

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.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Iron Quotes , Water Quotes

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Iron Quotes , Velvet Quotes