Top 44 While The Iron Is Hot Quotes
#1. The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#2. Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot ... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
Brian Boitano
#3. I will strike while the iron is hot. I will make all my dreams come true.
Yuval Abramovitz
#5. And Winterfell ... grey granite, oak and iron, crows wheeling around the towers, steam rising off the hot pools in the godswood, the stone kings sitting on their thrones ... how could Winterfell be gone?
George R R Martin
#6. No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini
#7. Death stripes away many things, especially when it arrives at a temperature hot enough to vaporize iron ... The immortal remains of Brother Watchtower watched the dragon flap away into the fog ...
Terry Pratchett
#8. Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.
Lakshmi Mittal
#10. I slept and saw God's forge in frost. Its hearth was quelled, and as it cooled so swooned the verdancy it kept above. In slumber it grew a thick winter skin, white as bedsheets. In their folds the waker dreamt, her breath as steam, her touch as hot as iron, forgotten in the fire.
Andrew Hussie
#11. Kiddo, I'd let you brand me with a hot iron if you wanted to."
"Still a sucker for punishment?"
He grinned. "Something like that.
Karina Halle
#12. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
Stephen Richards
#13. Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
Peter Lewis Allen
#14. Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.
Dan Groat
#15. We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.
Tom Sharpe
#16. When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when the iron's hot.
Markus Zusak
#17. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
W.B.Yeats
#18. Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. 1Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, + 2speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
Anonymous
#20. Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand ... heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#21. The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws ...
Stephen Fry
#22. Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
Ezra Pound
#23. If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.
Clint Eastwood
#24. A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
John Flavel
#25. I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'
Jimmy Fallon
#26. My dear, dear girl [ ... ] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire
a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron
which we cannot get back.
Thomas Wolfe
#28. Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
Michelle Phan
#29. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#30. The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert air, wondering whether to tell the world the wonders he had seen, and, if so, how. Amazing things. Other-worldly things. Also a set of car keys. And one brown sock.
Ron Brackin
#31. Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
Simone Weil
#32. My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
Ben Robertson
#34. The iron may not be hot early if you want to wait for it to get heated; it will get hot if you strike it hardly! Strike it now!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. Cover your cocks," the men sailors sometimes joked. "They're always hunting sodomites."
"What do they do to sodomites?" Baru asked.
They looked at her with some astonishment. "Hot iron," one said. "Hssssssssss.
Seth Dickinson
#36. Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will
Alexander MacLaren
#37. The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as much for hesitating. I hated myself for the weakness in me.
Mark Lawrence
#38. It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.
Jessica Alba
#39. Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?
Isaac Newton
#40. And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet.
Anne Sexton
#41. Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,
And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air;
Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
John Clare
#42. We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
John Dryden
#43. Formats are just illusions, and it's about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music. Every time there's a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
Bjork
#44. Greeks who coined the term "Amazon." The word literally means "without breast." It is said that in order to facilitate the drawing of a bow, the female's right breast was removed, either in early childhood or with a red-hot iron after she became an adult.
Stieg Larsson
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