“You can push my buttons all you want. Just don't pull any of my levers.” — Carroll Bryant Copy Share Image
Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power. — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. — Eduardo Saverin Copy Share Image
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . .… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end,… — David Copy Share Image
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
“If you knew which levers to pull, you could stop time just long enough to save the things you love most.” — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central… — Bruce D. Porter Copy Share Image
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is all about keeping her [Hillary Clinton] and her husband [Bill Clinton] as far away from the levers of power as… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
![“The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive…” quote by B. H. Liddell Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94a/b-h-liddell-hart-9275_arcs_the-more-closely-the-german-army-converg_1327222.jpg)
![“As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among…” quote by Robert Fulton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/570/robert-fulton-57049_alphabet_as-the-component-parts-of-all-new-machin_1680664.jpg)
![“No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning … Our possessionis important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in…” quote by David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e3b/david-10635_country_no-zionist-can-forgo-the-smallest-portio_839660.jpg)
![“The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d3/garry-kasparov-910_calm_the-handover-of-power-to-dmitry-medvedev_150545.jpg)
![“It is all about keeping her [Hillary Clinton] and her husband [Bill Clinton] as far away from the levers of power as possible. It is all about ending this woman's political career. There are people that are totally devoted to that concept, that premise.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8a/donald-trump-18_bills_it-is-all-about-keeping-her-hillary-clin_1581993.jpg)