Wheel Quotes
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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— 4.7, "Use of Natural Power", p. 126
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
solomon— Ecclesiastes 12:6 (KJV)
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real... Oh! The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountain tops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
gordon lightfoot— Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists YouTube video
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the disease.
Mahatma Gandhi— Young India, 1927
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
sarada devi— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 297.
The fundamental inability to grasp the fact that real leadership is accepting that you are merely another cog in the wheel has derailed many careers and deranged many managers.
damien richardson— City Edition, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p.5.
Let Sporus tremble'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope— 1735 Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.305-8.
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
mario andretti— Mario Andretti - Began Racing In Italy. sports.jrank.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-12..
I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill. I could not hear the brook flow, the noisy wheel was still.
houghton, richard monckton milnes, 1st baron hough— The Brookside.
You are the architect of your own destiny ; you are the master of your own fate ; you are behind the steering wheel of your life . There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
brian tracy— The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires (2001), Conclusion : Success Is Predictable, p. 63
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
thomas bailey aldrich— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Two Moods.
The field of mechanical engineering is frankly as old as human life itself. Fire, the wheel, the printing press, and many of the life- changing discoveries and inventions of the past few centuries are simply applications of mechanical engineering in order to solve everyday problems.
— ?Dr. Vook Ph.D and Charles River Editors (2011) Mechanical Engineering 101: The TextVook
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill: I could not hear the brook flow. The noisy wheel was still.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, The Brookside.
She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune … and fears no manner of ill because she means none.
thomas overbury— Thomas Overbury, A Fair and Happy Milkmaid.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg— 1956 Howl and Other Poems,'America'.
[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.
robert burton— Section 2, member 3, subsection 11, Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes.
Jesus, take the wheel.
carrie underwood— From Jesus, Take the Wheel from the album, Some Hearts (2005). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
"Behind the wheel of a racing car he was fearfully quick, never stopped trying, and could extricate himself from the most precarious situations with deft brilliance."
gilles villeneuve— Alan Henry, Motorsport journalist - Henry, pg. ii
For fortune's wheel is on the turn, And some go up and some go down.
— Mary F. Tucker, Going Up and Coming Down.
I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.
jane addams— Ch. 2 (Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910))
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
abraham joshua heschel— Man's Quest For God : Studies In Prayer And Symbolism (1954), p. 7; Heschel would later use this analogy in several minor variations in other writings.
Gambling was the place where statistics and profound human consequences met most nakedly, after all, and cards, even more than dice or the numbers on a roulette wheel, seemed able to define and perhaps even dictate a player’s...luck.
tim powers— Chapter 8 (p. 79)
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
friedrich von schiller— Stanza 4. (An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785))
As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
— Ezekiel. X. 10 (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
The Father of Heaven. Spin, daughter Mary, spin, Twirl your wheel with silver din; Spin, daughter Mary, spin, Spin a tress for Viola.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, The Making of Viola, Stanza 1.
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
— Petrarch, Triumph of Eternity, line 117
Human life is like that clay on the wheel. If there is too much of any one thing, life will be out of balance; it will fall.
— Robert Fulghum, in “A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying” p.221
Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the wheel?
thomas hardy— Pt. I, forescene, Spirit of the Pities.
