Virginia Woolf Quotes, Iron Quotes, Yellow Quotes

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

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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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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Iron Quotes , Soul Quotes

Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Iron Quotes , Age 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

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Iron Quotes , Gold Quotes

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

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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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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

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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The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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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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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Nature Quotes , Iron Quotes

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Children Quotes , Iron Quotes

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Winning Quotes , Iron Quotes

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

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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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