Wheels Quotes - Page 20

• Oh my God, this can't be happening!" I cried. "What?" "Mopeds? Those are the wheels Pete gives us? I knew he was pissed off at me! It was all that time I spent in the hospital wasn't it? Or was it the wrecks? But I only tore up one car last time! And that wasn't my fault!

  Jennifer Rardin

  Giving, Car, Pissed Off

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hurt, Men, Mad

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria

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• Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling creation with blue-green, white-tipped icing waves swimming with fish and sailboats, seals and sea flowers. But I push my way through the crowd to confirm what I knew at first sight. As surely as the embroidery stitches in Annie's gown were done by Cinna's hand, the frosted flowers on the cake were done by Peeta's.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Swimming, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.227, Scholastic Inc.

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• When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Tyres, Draws

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.939, Delphi Classics

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• But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hubert Sisson (1980). “The divine comedy”

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• Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nymphs, People, Enemy

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• Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin.

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Guy, Hot

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• I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Dog, Boys, Glasses

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• I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Sadness, Light

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

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• Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ducks, Water, Car

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• Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

  Joyce Meyer

  Home, Potters

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• But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doe, Deeds, Causality

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

  Dylan Thomas

  Running, Lying, Hands

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Muertes Y Entradas [1934-1953]: Antología Poética”, p.88, HUERGA Y FIERRO EDITORES

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• “Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk,” he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. “Drunk?” I objected. “You're intoxicated by my very presence.” He was grinning that playful smirk again.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sweet, Smell, Drunk

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Knowing, Perfect

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• Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Winning, Chance

  Song: The Times They Are A-Changin', Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grateful, Fate, Giving

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.212, Penguin

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• I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mother, Real, People

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• Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

  Sarah Dessen

  Growing Up, Lying, Mean

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• Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

  Beth Moore

  Fit, Steering, Gripping

  Beth Moore (2009). “Get Out of That Pit: Straight Talk about God's Deliverance”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Clothes You Wear, Dragons

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.682, Macmillan

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• Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Moving, Fall, Men

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1968). “The Cancer Ward”

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• Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Princess, Hero

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• Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Training, Shapes, Might

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, White, Water

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.288, Anchor

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