Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm always on the road, and I drive rental cars. Sometimes I don't know what's going on with the car, and I'll… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of… — Ivy Baker Priest Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials. — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make… — Richard Garriott Copy Share Image
