Wheel Quotes - page 2

In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The creation of Dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion, When the wheel of time goes round. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. View quote
Robert Browning
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top. View quote
Robert Burton
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. View quote
Edie Brickell
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer! View quote
Richard Pryor
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one. View quote
Douglas Crockford
If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel. (Napoleon Hill)
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time. View quote
Louis Riel
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. View quote
Friedrich Engels
We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods - Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will - a good offense. View quote
Pat Robertson
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. View quote
Stephen King
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle. View quote
Judy Chicago
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. View quote
Claude Debussy
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. (Swami Vivekananda)
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. View quote
Hugh Laurie
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. View quote
Dean Kamen
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. View quote
Emma Goldman