Engines Quotes - Page 18

• Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  Will Ferguson

  Happiness, Promise, Beyond The Horizon

  Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”

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• For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

  Nehemiah Grew

  Nature, Hands, Made

  Nehemiah Grew (1965). “The Anatomy of Plants: With An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures Read Before the Royal Society”

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• Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

  Aharon Katzir

  Exercise, Science, Goal

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• Attributing global climate change to human CO₂ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.

  Timothy Ball

  Nuts, Water, Trying

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Color

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• I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Car, What If

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.316, Penguin

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• The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Progress, Milestone

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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• But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Ties, Track

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• Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

  Keith Duckworth

  Aerodynamics, People, Car

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• ‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

  Garth Nix

  Dream, Real, Light

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.254, Hot Key Books

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• Not inmune to engines huh? BOO-Yah!! -Leo

  Rick Riordan

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• I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Writing, Fire, Dragons

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “The Fire Within”, p.275, Scholastic Inc.

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• I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.

  Jim Butcher

  Blue, Doors, Wizards

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• Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Dark, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.810, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

  B. C. Forbes

  Progress, Electric Current, Enthusiasm

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• I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.]

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Cat, Magic

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• Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Fighting, Keys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

  Peter Watts

  Brain, Survival

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.288, Macmillan

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• It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fall, Oxygen, Paper

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.51, Egmont UK

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety features of this aircraft. It has an engine, to make us go, and wings, to keep us in the air. There are seatbelts, which won't do you an awful lot of good if we fly into the side of a mountain.

  Derek Landy

  Air, Wings, Safety

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• When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

  Henry Ford

  Block, Men, Eight

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• The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

  Derrick Jensen

  Environmental, Degradation, Economy

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.195, Seven Stories Press

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• Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Beautiful, Country

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Wall, Needs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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