How The Steel Was Tempered Quotes

#1. In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

Wallace Stegner

#2. you can always find something you want.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. My mother ... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult

#4. A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.

Louis L'Amour

#5. Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we will ever know. How terrible for children who are being brought up without that capacity.

Sue Gerhardt

#6. Yeah, one of the Arum does owe me a favor." A winsome grin appeared. "And his name would be Hunter.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.

Jacqueline Carey

#8. I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.

Simon Toyne

#9. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Scott Adams

#10. People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

Deborah Bull

#11. I wish you hadn't told her. If you must know, I could have done without your telling her I commited statutory rape on the living room couch with her cousin. - Michael Curry

Anne Rice

#12. There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,
that does not make a man sing or play the better.

George Eliot

#13. 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.

Samael Aun Weor

#14. I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

Sarah Silverman

#15. Men were like blades, they would all break sooner or later, you included. But you looked around at the men you led, and in their eyes you saw what kind of steel you had to hand, how it had been forged and tempered, what blows, if any, it would take.

Richard K. Morgan

#16. Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

Lydia Sigourney

#17. Men were weird. Especially men made of tempered steel and fire and perpetual darkness. Or men with penises. Either way

Darynda Jones

#18. Well, a lot of people believe in the happily ever after and the fairytale relationships, let's not take that away from them.

Sandi Lynn

#19. People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Whitfield Diffie

#20. RVM's Thought for the Day - Everybody Counts- the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles.

R.v.m.

#21. The heart cannot rejoice in that which the mind rejects

Kenneth D. Boa

#22. In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#23. 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.

Herbert Newton Casson