Tempering Steel Quotes & Sayings

God's love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted. — Pope Francis

Some settlers began with no implements but an ax. In conversation, the subject of axes
their ideal weight, their proper helves
was more popular than politics or religion. A man who made good axes, who knew the secrets of tempering the steel and getting the center of gravity right, received the celebrity of an artist and might act accordingly. The best ax maker in southern Indiana was "a dissolute, drunken genius, named Richardson." Men who really knew how to chop became famous, too. An ax blow requires the same timing of weight shift and wrist action as a golf swing, and as in golf those who where good at it taught others; sometimes all the men in one district learned their stroke from the same axman extraordinaire. A good stroke had a "sweetness" similar to the sound of a well-struck golf or tennis ball, and gave a satisfaction which moved the work along. — Ian Frazier

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. — William Faulkner

When you are finished changing, you're finished. — Benjamin Franklin

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. — Bill Shankly

Time dims memory. But not that kind. Somewhere in a corner of the brain, one little cell never forgets. It keeps the song that, heard again, recreates the room, the person, the moment. It preserves the phrase or the laugh or the gesture that resurrects a friend long gone. It knows precisely where you were and what you were doing when you heard about Pearl Harbor if you're old enough, or Kennedy's assassination, or Martin Luther King's, or the Challenger explosion. Every detail is frozen in memory, despite all the years. It keeps the innocuous question, too. The question that sometime later, when all the synapses are working, produces the epiphany, the moment when you're driving along and you realize that finally you understand. And why did it take you so long? — Kay Mills

I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow) — Rob Williams

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. — Martin McGuinness

Life is about going fast and how quick you get there. — Robert Ogawa

I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise. — Michael Jackson

No longer a victim. I broke an altar with my werewolf lover. How fitting, how utterly empowering. Broke that bitch! — Kresley Cole

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart. — Sri Aurobindo

Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe. — Thomas Sowell