Quotes of: Steel Keyword

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

An idea so dangerous it can’t be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.

On the Steel Breeze

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

The Picturegoers

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

Alvar Aalto

Remember that your role in this experience that we call life is quite significant! Never equate your significance to temporary stuff, or in comparison to others – you’re more than that!~Steele Steele

Life

I like a little fight in my girls." She grinned at him,causing blood to dribble down her chin. "Then you're going to love me.

The Girl in the Steel Corset

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Sooner or later our souls find their centre of gravity in a hot, salt-tasting kiss and a trembling touch. Trembling is a good sign: it means you're open to a world that knows you're coming.

The Steel Seraglio

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one’s soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire.

Song For Sophia

Steele: Open up the hatch, we've got men back here! Pakistani Driver: No room here, go on the roof! Sanderson: What's going on? Steele: The roof? Twombly: I ain't gettin on no fucking roof!

Black Hawk Down

Disturbed to her very soul, Finley could only shake her head. "You ask too much." A crooked grin curved his mouth. "Too much? You strange and wonderful girl, that is the least I'll ask of you.

The Girl in the Steel Corset

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all -- that of intllectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorde...

Gerda Lerner

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

Garry Wills

So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out there? If we can’t even accept a robot and some talking elephants, what good are we going to be when we meet something strange...

On the Steel Breeze

If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leaders...

The Steel Remains

In fifteen hundred years someone will figure out a way to squeeze black juice out of the yellow sand, and that will get everyone very excited. Some people who were rich already will get a lot richer, and some people who were poor will be told that th...

The Steel Seraglio

Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We pres...

Emily Dickinson

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son. Take half an hour to think? A drink of water? A drink of wind? Totter off awhile. If it makes you seasick, then prudent...

Walter M. Miller Jr.