Wheels Quotes - Page 23

• The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sunset, Cat, Gun

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• What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Eye, Hands

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• Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you.

  John Green

  Sorry, Listening, Female

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.97, Penguin

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• I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

  Janette Rallison

  Crazy, Believe, Eye

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.106, Penguin

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• we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.930, Macmillan

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• The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

  Robert Jordan

  Memories, Past, Wind

  Robert Jordan (2002). “From The Two Rivers: The Eye of the World”, p.1, Macmillan

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• This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine.

  Tana French

  Running, Dark, Night

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• At last, the wheel comes full circle

  Cassandra Clare

  Saying Goodbye, Circles, Full Circle

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.568, Simon and Schuster

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• Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. “Oh, yes,” he said bitterly. “Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed beyond the river, or turned upon the Wheel, or whatever kind words you want to use to describe leaving this world, I shall find my friend again, my parabatai. But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did!

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Hands, Rivers

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities and towers and churches and bridges and streets, circled all about them like the memory of a dream. And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as brightly as a shilling on this same boy and girl, or if the stones of Blackfriars knew the tread of their feet and thought to themselves: At last, the wheel comes to a full circle, they kept their silence.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Dream, Memories

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• The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

  John Green

  Rain, White, Water

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• I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Thinking, Lilies

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• In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Intelligent, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

  Richelle Mead

  Brain, Hamster Wheel, Hamsters

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• Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

  Philippa Gregory

  Faces, Lows, Fortune

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Princess”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Turns

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• Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps." ........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Looks, Window

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Gambling, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• The time will come when every change shall cease,
  This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
  Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
  But an eternal now shall ever last.

  Petrarch

  Summer, Rest In Peace, Time

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• No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
  That round and round still turns with onward might,
  Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
  Of an unknown hereafter.

  Charles Cowden Clarke

  Time, Night, Might

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• Time, the foe of man's dominion,
  Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
  Scattering from his hoary pinion
  Shades of everlasting night.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Night, Men

  Thomas Love Peacock (1812). “The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems”, p.97

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• The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Men, Pity

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.370, Macmillan

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• The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Prayer, Important

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