Wheels Quotes - Page 37

• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Speed, Enough, Bigs

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Bargains, Ifs

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.

  Lois Crisler

  Balance, Wildlife

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• A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  Strong, Numbers, Circles

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

  Tucker Carlson

  Elderly, People, Lasts

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson"for Jan. 11th". "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. January 11, 2006.

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• Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Omnipotence, Circles

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• Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Country, Mind, May

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.60

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• Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!

  Starhawk

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.

  Mark Pesce

  Mean, Hands, Doe

  "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.

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• The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hero, Spinning, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Spinning, Love Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.229, Grove Press

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• Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

  Gucci Mane

  Play, Car, Motorcycle

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Church, Victim, Spokes

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

  Paul Newman

  Long, Car, Racing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Satisfaction, Spinning

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

  Laozi

  Moving, Space, House

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• After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Religious, Jesus

  "Carrie Underwood: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 09, 2009.

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• Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.

  George Foreman

  Successful, Guy, Mentor

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• I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

  Roald Dahl

  Trying, Littles, Way

  Roald Dahl (1968). “Selected stories of Roald Dahl”

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• It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire.

  Lee S Shulman

  Hurt, Tire, Enough

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