Steel Quotes

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?

Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

The uniform of Polish Uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.

People are afraid of what they do not understand.

If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

It is no coincidence that some of America's most lethargic industries-steel, footwear, rubber, textiles-are also among the most heavily protected.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Steel is not forged in a comfortable place.

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

There are words which cut like steel.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

There's the perception Danni Minogue is the sweetest little thing in the world but she's not... she's got balls of steel.

O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"