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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.
I have a lot of respect for Olivia Chow because she is a real excellent lady and honoured Iron Sheik's friend.
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.
While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair
I love 'Iron Chef' and I love 'Chopped.' I watch both of them. I think it is crazy what those chefs go through.
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.
The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.
During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.
When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.
We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.
I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.