Steel Quotes

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And I'm gonna say it right now and get it through your head... BOTH OF YA (Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff) THIS THANG WILL NEVER BE OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

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

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.

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

I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

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

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

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

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

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

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

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

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.

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

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

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.