Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“She supposed she was a little cog in the big wheel of Empire. “Nothing wrong with being a cog,” Maurice said, himself… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position… — Otto Ohlendorf Copy Share Image
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care,… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a… — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function. — Ken Knabb Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're… — Richard Dawson Copy Share Image
An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image