Wheels Quotes - Page 25

• I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

  Leo Burnett

  Believe, Successful, Agency

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• My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Flower, Purple

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

  Edna Ferber

  Ends, Fixed, Know How

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel.
  [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri
  Fingendus sine fine rota.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Art, Character, Glowing

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• Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

  William J. Mitchell

  Independent, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  William J. Mitchell

  Successful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

  Miles Franklin

  Mother, Thinking, Wind

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

  Mary Astor

  Moving, Justice

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• There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

  Joan Larkin

  Regret, Writing, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

  Anne Lamott

  Airplane, Ideas, Flying

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.55, Anchor

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• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Lapses, Pipe Organs

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Morning, Sacrifice, Night

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• Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

  J. G. Holland

  Failure, Men, Use

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• Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Looks

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• Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.

  Lois Crisler

  Balance, Wildlife

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• The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Bargains, Ifs

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Speed, Enough, Bigs

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  Strong, Numbers, Circles

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• It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

  Gertrude Bell

  Nice, Helping, Spokes

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “The Letters of Gertrude Bell”, p.1761, eStar Books

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• Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

  Ruth Rendell

  Years, Civilization, Car

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• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.

  Shanola Hampton

  Fall, Tired, People

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• The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

  Friedrich Engels

  Museums, Association, Spinning

  1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

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