Ironlike Quotes & Sayings

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself. — Jack London

We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth acts as a great reservoir for electricity may be placed in the physicist's waste-paper basket, with phlogiston, the materiality of light, and other old-time hypotheses. — William Henry Preece

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. — Bill Murray

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. — Lucy Grealy

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours. — Dennis Christopher

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here. — Sonny Terry

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — Virginia Woolf

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. — Kobo Abe

The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era. — Patrick Mendis

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain. — Hadewijch

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky. — Shantel VanSanten

The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty
that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men. — George Washington

Because of something told under the famished horn
Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne. — William Butler Yeats