Quotes with fly-wheel

Quotes 101 till 120 of 133.

  • Benny Hill The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
    Benny Hill
    English comedian, actor and singer (1924 - 1992)
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  • David Mamet The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Confucius The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carl Sandburg There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Croesus There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
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  • Quentin Crisp This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Antonio Porchia Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • William Cowper To combat may be glorious, and succes perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Richard Bach To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Aldo Leopold To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bill Williams We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • John Cage We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Wayne Calloway We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
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