Steel Quotes

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian)

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.