Wheels Quotes - Page 39

• I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Spinning, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.423, Rajpal & Sons

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• I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

  Howard Zinn

  Teacher, Successful, Media

  "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

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• I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

  Stephen King

  Four, Upstairs, Crooked

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• There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is play… The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the function of breadwinner; the world exacted its tribute of me, that was all.

  Henry Miller

  Children, Opposites, Play

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• The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strong, Moving, Eye

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Butterfly, Men

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that invisible mechanism I spoke of before; perhaps the finest sign, the most certain. In it’s throes we need neither luck nor science. We are the wheel, and the man who profits by it. We are the star, and the darkness it pierces. We are the butterfly, brief and beautiful.

  Clive Barker

  Beautiful, Stars, Butterfly

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Fire, Idols

  Song: Changing of The Guards, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind

  Stephen Cosgrove

  People, Mind, Different

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• There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

  James A. Garfield

  Loyalty, Running, Kindness

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• She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Self, Long Ago

  "Ladder Of Years". Book by Anne Tyler, 1995.

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• Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Care, Logic

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.765, Delphi Classics

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• In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

  Primo Levi

  Order, Diversity, Growth

  Primo Levi (1995). “The Periodic Table”, Schocken

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• Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Animal, Men

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• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ignorance, Men, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons,
  Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons.
  I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons,
  They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.

  Elzhi

  Rap, June, Air

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• There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

  Soong May-ling

  Peace, Business, Shadow

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• If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

  William McDonough

  Motivation, Inspiration, Humility

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• The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Moving, Men, Car

  "A Fate Worse than Debt". Book by Susan George, 1988.

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• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Mother, Responsibility

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

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• We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, America, Meditation

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• After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Invention, Playstation

  "The Bandinis 2013: an utterly exhaustive review of the Serie A season" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I have dated and have had sex with men and women and have to say that the relationships I have had with certain women have been much more fulfilling, sexually and emotionally, than of those with certain men. I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is. That's what makes my wheels turn.

  Kristanna Loken

  Sex, Men, Energy

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• It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Common, Advantage

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