Quotes About Tempered Steel

#1. When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf 's tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.

Terry Tempest Williams

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.

Raheel Farooq

#6. No amount of promises can guarantee love

Hanif Kureishi

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

Darynda Jones

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

Dennis Hopper

#11. I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#12. 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

#13. I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.

David Ayer

#14. It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first.

Jodi Picoult

#15. I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

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

Louis L'Amour

#17. 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