Wheels Quotes - Page 34

• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

  William James

  Uprising, Agents, Conservative

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

  Frederick The Great

  Vanity, Water, Yards

  Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great. Letter 221, 1927.

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• The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.

  Tracey Emin

  Oil

  2001 In the Observer, 22 Apr.

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• Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lying, Organization, Perfect

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Boys, Night

  Song: My Hometown, 1984

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• World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

  Tanith Lee

  Horse, Night, Fire

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• Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

  Gerald Massey

  Life, Iron, Mark

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228

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• A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

  Leon Uris

  Feet, Soldier, Warfare

  "Quotes for the Air Force Logistician" by Air Force Logistics Management Agency, p. 115, 2001.

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• This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.

  Sarada Devi

  Moving, Desire, World

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels.

  Helen Garner

  Summer, Morning, Tunnels

  "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.

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• The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Pity, Mercy

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

  Brock Yates

  Moving, Reality, Media

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• I really enjoy it - it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.

  Mike Shinoda

  Gps, Car, Feelings

  Variety Interview, July 16, 2007.

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• Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

  Colin MacInnes

  Tradition, Mills, Ifs

  1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.

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• If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.

  Erik Naggum

  Cities, Car, Effort

  "What obstacles do Common Lisp programmers face?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 12, 2002.

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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Motorcycle, Faults, Huge

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.

  Rob Kall

  Spiritual, Teacher, Book

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• Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.

  Dong Kingman

  Men, Riding, Three

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• The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divided against itself, and the three great wheels of its machinery exhaust their momentum, or wear each other out, in their friction against each other; while, as soon as it begins to go right, all the parts work harmoniously, and exhaust their full strength on the object of their action.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Powerful, Government, Three

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• Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.

  Kelly Link

  Stars, War, Educational

  Interview with Lynne Jamneck, strangehorizons.com. February 28, 2005.

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• The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Squad, Lines

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• The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Stars, Russia, Black

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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• For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spring, Moving, Watches

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.97

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• My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.

  David Brooks

  Squad, Suvs, Littles

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