Wheels Quotes - Page 10

• Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Naked, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Poverty, Problem

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Europe, Sea, Land

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• There is good Karma, there is bad Karma, and as the wheel of life moves on, old Karma is exhausted and again fresh Karma is accumulated... Karma is twofold, hidden and manifest, Karma is the man that is, Karma is his action. True that each action is a cause from which evolves the countless ramifications of effect in time and space... To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

  William Quan Judge

  Karma, Spiritual, Moving

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• I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, Giants, Form

  Source: collider.com

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• Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.

  Colum McCann

  Believe, Men, Cogs

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• Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Animal, Existence

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• I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

  Jason Isaacs

  Children, Book, Sitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing [mimes steering wheel]? This steers it'

  Steven Wright

  Feet, Car, Cop

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• I build engines and attach wheels to them.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Engines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

  Francis Bacon

  Dust, Tree, Action

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1999). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

  Christopher Morley

  Witty, Blessed, Thinking

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• The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

  Adam Smith

  Artist, Principles, Machines

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.460, VM eBooks

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• I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

  Ben Barnes

  Dream, Fall, Wake Up

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• There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

  George Chapman

  Opportunity, Men, Restless

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• A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

  Scott Adams

  Car, Car Rental, Ashtrays

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first time I was behind the wheel of a car, when I was a kid, it kind of freaked me out. I've always been a very anxious student of anything, and so not being able to process things quickly enough, feeling overwhelmed, I just got freaked out and so I just never tried again.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Kids, Car, Feelings

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Guy, Motorcycle

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• Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

  Irene Dunne

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Trying

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• Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

  Kalidasa

  Pain, Soul, Wheel Of Life

  Kālidāsa, C. R. Devadhar (1984). “Works of Kalidasa: Kayva”, p.52, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, School, Successful

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• I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

  Fiona Apple

  Ideas, Differences, Idlers

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

  Mark Donohue

  Power, Car, Not Good Enough

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• If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Past, Thinking, Ignorant

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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