Spokes Quotes

• There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

  Ray Charles

  Firsts, Wheels, Possibility

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• Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

  William Empson

  Men, Law, Long

  "Legal Fiction" l. 1 (1935)

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• Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'

  Niles Eldredge

  Passion, Years, Agreement

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• Susan Wojcicki at Google makes a point to leave the office at 6 P.M. After 9 P.M. she gets back online to handle any pressing work issues that need her attention. She told us she hopes that sends a message to all parents that it's OK to spend time away from the office. All the women we spoke to on the show use technology in a similar way. They are very clear that they don't need to be chained to a desk. They can take time out of their work day to be with their families.

  Willow Bay

  Technology, Issues, Office

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

  Nicole Kidman

  Strong, Children, Loss

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 08, 2016

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• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Self, Different

  "Man's Quest For God: Studies In Prayer And Symbolism". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, p. 7, 1954.

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• Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

  Edmund Waller

  Art, Yoke, Language

  'Upon the Death of the Lord Protector' l. 21

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• Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

  Aphra Behn

  Learning, Bards, Wisest

  Aphra Behn (1871). “Plays”, p.255

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• And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.

  Charley Reese

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Candor, Gracious

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• I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

  Earl Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Speech

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• The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Land, House

  George Orwell (2004). “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

  Charles Perrault

  Brother, Children, Littles

  Charles Perrault (2016). “Little Thumb (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Der kleine Däumling (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.2, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Library, Information, Facts

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Struggle, Wrestling, Men

  Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

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• Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

  John Abizaid

  Home, Army, United States

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• Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.

  Leonard Shlain

  Jesus, Years, Greek

  Leonard Shlain (1999). “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image”, p.233, Penguin

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• Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

  Adrian Rogers

  Roots, Fruit

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• Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it
  since before I was born.
  My body is a nightmare
  it hurts me every day.
  I’ve been taught to resent it by boys
  trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering.
  They knew there was something wrong with me,
  it was explained through hands
  that spoke only in exclamation points.

  Brian Ellis

  Hurt, Sleep, Boys

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.

  Alice Bag

  Jesus, Men, Dogma

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• When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

  Henry Blackaby

  Jesus, Encounters, Events

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• We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Doors, Space, Clay

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• Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.

  Jonathan King

  Shy, Quiet, Made

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• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

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