Top 100 Forged Quotes
#1. All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
Lord Alfred Douglas
#2. Don't be sad that one day or another you met someone who undermined your capabilities and sapped your energy, what that person did could be the strongest crucible that forged a great leader
Ahmed Elkadi
#3. I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
J.R. Moehringer
#5. Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#6. Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
Audre Lorde
#7. Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.
Holly Black
#8. The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life.
Brian Rathbone
#10. You must learn to control your impulses," he said. "A sword wants to be used. It wants to draw blood. That is why it was forged, and it has no other purpose in the world. If you do not control it, then it will control you.
John Connolly
#11. Our characters are forged in fires we didn't build.
Patricia Ryan
#12. The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so was that M happened to be out at the time and I thought I could save myself trouble.
Daphne Du Maurier
#14. My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
Jose Mujica
#15. Her unseen palette of human relationships forged connections, established bonds, and changed lives in ways few of the attendees understood.
Anthony Flacco
#16. Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.
Groucho Marx
#17. I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.
Julie Anne Long
#18. Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.
Tess Gerritsen
#19. New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
#20. Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.
Janet Fitch
#21. The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
Tony Lema
#22. If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.
Bruce Chatwin
#23. I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Henry Rollins
#24. Grace Kelly forged a link between Monaco and the movie world, and I would like to create a strong bond between Monaco and the fashion community.
Charlene, Princess Of Monaco
#25. Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.
David Sedaris
#26. Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.
Henri De Mondeville
#27. It was typical, he thought, that it had come to this. One minute he was happily selling forged certificates and making good money and the next he was forced to choose between torture, amputation or leaping into a pile of corpses. It was the kind of thing which always seemed to be happening to him.
C.S. Quinn
#28. Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.
Dan Brown
#29. This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.
S. Alexander O'Keefe
#31. CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.
Calvin Miller
#32. She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.
Philippa Gregory
#34. You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
Charles Dickens
#35. If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
George Carlin
#37. Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
John Baldoni
#38. The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.
Gustave Le Bon
#39. The path to inner peace already exists. It was forged by others before us.
Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
#40. Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.
Alice Lowe
#41. Maybe that brought us together, but it didn't make us who we are. It didn't make you the girl who could get me to laugh when I had nothing. It sure as hell didn't make me the idiot who took that for granted. Whatever there is between us, we forged it. It belongs to us.
Leigh Bardugo
#42. Every meaningful accomplishment is forged in the fires of perseverance.
Dennis Ricci
#43. I'm an idiot. I'm ten times an idiot. God, I could just die." Then I forged ahead because the last comment was too close for comfort these days. "Not die die, as in not-breathing die, but die figuratively, if you know what I mean." Lee was grinning.
Kristen Ashley
#44. China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.
Li Keqiang
#45. With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably.
Star Trek The Next Generation
#46. Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#47. Don't fear suffering. The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The facts are always friendly. Without a little agony, none of us would bother to learn a thing. The earth has to be tilled before the seeds can be planted.
Ethan Hawke
#48. The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
John Knox
#49. Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
George F. Kennan
#50. Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
Annie Besant
#51. There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?
Mark Dunn
#52. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.
Kerry Cohen
#53. Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
Elton Gallegly
#54. But it is one thing to transmit the divine through a blasting storm of holy noise, another thing entirely to write a history forged from human voices, imperfect memories, self-interested accounts.
Geraldine Brooks
#55. The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. Strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.
Dervla Murphy
#57. As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water.
Katherine McIntyre
#58. When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.
Richard Desmond
#59. He himself was a beautiful weapon, forged by centuries of ruthless training and warring.
Sarah J. Maas
#60. My soul was made in heaven, but my spirit has been forged in hell.
Keith Houghton
#61. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.
Charles Dickens
#62. Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
Jacqueline Carey
#63. Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
Seneca The Younger
#64. ...they shared more than just secrets. They share a bond forged with loyalty and respect.
F.C. Shaw
#65. Kingship wrought of Infinite worship,
Quick-forged by the Swift Sure Hand;
Bold in Righteousness,
Valiant in Justice,
A sword of honor to defend the clans of Albion!
Stephen R. Lawhead
#66. I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.
Paulo Costanzo
#67. He ... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break
chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
Emily Bronte
#69. Libby is none of those things. At least not the Libby I've become. She's crafted and honed for this one purpose, forged by misery and rage, until every raw edge was seared away.
Carrie Ryan
#70. Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative.
Ron Chernow
#71. Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.
Mark Helprin
#72. Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
R.L. LaFevers
#73. The Pilgrims had vision and hope because they lived in the dimension of eternity. Their strength of spirit was forged by a personal faith in God, by tough discipline, and by regular habits of devotion.
Billy Graham
#74. Was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He
Pierce Brown
#75. A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.
Eric Hoffer
#76. Great marriages are made when husbands and wives don't allow cultural expectations to dictate their life decisions or their day-to-day interactions. A one-of-a-kind value system is forged, blended
Fawn Weaver
#77. A DAY LAYE"
"Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.
Marc Bolan
#78. In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
William Blake
#79. No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.
Eoin Colfer
#81. This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.
Paulo Freire
#82. Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
Marquis De Sade
#83. Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.
Jeff Goldblum
#84. The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. She wanted to kiss the hurt away, but knew from her own life that it would always be there. The sadness would remain, but it would exist next to new, buoyant memories. He had come through his own fiery trial as she had hers, not unscathed, but forged into something altogether different and stronger.
Sharon Kay
#88. Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#89. Deep friendships are forged in the fire of pain. If
Bill Hybels
#90. Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#91. If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.
Charles Dickens
#92. Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.
Tibullus
#94. Some families happen at birth, some are created by choice. But the best are forged in love.
Louise Behiel
#95. In fact, I believe that, barring a couple of key moments, Beli never thought about that life again. Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination. Embraced the power of the Untilles. And from it forged herself anew.
Junot Diaz
#96. When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.
David Christian
#97. A soul is forged in the fires of adversity, not comfort.
Jana Oliver
#99. What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she'd felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.
David Liss
#100. My love for you forged a bond to this land long before I even knew it. You play no part in my oaths to these people...because I made mine to you long ago, in my heart.
Jules Watson
