A Quote by Andy Andrews

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

Andy Andrews

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Always Been Brightest Brightest Star Calamity Darkest Distress Fire Greatest Hardest Hottest Men Night Produced Producers Star Steel Times

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Andy Andrews
American - Author
Born: May 22, 1959

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But it does not require a grant from the National Science Foundation to learn the answer. The North Star is not even in the top 40 in the night sky. It's the 49th brightest star. Rather dull and boring by most measures.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Richard M. Nixon

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

Matthew Woodring Stover

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

François-René de Chateaubriand

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Phil Plait

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

Mencius

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.

Thomas Brooks

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

Samuel Adams

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Elizabeth George

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.