Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel."
Steel quotes
Steel
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Confucius
Philosopher
"A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel."
John Keats
Poet
"The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it."
George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"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."
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"Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth."
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"Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
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"To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition"
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"I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive."
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"When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything."
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"Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles."
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"I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost."
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"Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese."
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"Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike."
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"Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire."
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"Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap."
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"Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society."
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"They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel."
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"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."
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"You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap"
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"Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine."
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"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."
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"There are words which cut like steel."
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"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
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"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."
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