Wheels Quotes - Page 21

• Evil alone has oil for every wheel.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Oil, Evil

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

  Robert Breault

  Love Is, Training, Firsts

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• Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

  Dean Koontz

  Family, Heart, Adversity

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• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  Hal Borland

  Work, Humble, Airplane

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Vanity, Vices

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.939, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Two, Taste

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• I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

  Kris Carr

  Cancer, Awake

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

  Herodotus

  Men, Suffering, Fortune

  Herodotus (1990). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

  William Saroyan

  Memories, Connections, Lasts

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• We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

  Robert James Waller

  Conformity, Uniformity

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Work, Shining

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Winning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Graphic Arts Books

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• I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

  William Blake

  Education, Moving, School

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.688, Pearson Education

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• The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Eye, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Long, Political

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.215, tredition

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• Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

  Todd Rundgren

  Crush, Dog, Animal

  Song: Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel, Album: A Wizard, A True Star, 1973

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• I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, People, Maps

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

  Marie de France

  Never Forget, Fortune, Duty

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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• Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

  Morris West

  Buddhist, Talking, Continuity Of Life

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• One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

  Sean Hannity

  Happiness, Next Day, Have A Great Day

  "Behind Sean Hannity's Desk". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

  John Barrasso

  Dad, School, Mean

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• I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

  Ron Conway

  Thinking, Done, Want

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