Best Automobile Wisdom

243 Automobile quotes by 209 unique authors

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and… — Katherine Anne Porter
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police… — Ron Paul
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody… — Charles Bukowski
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an… — Barbara Kingsolver
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer… — Hermann Hesse
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. — Rod Serling
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels… — Alan Lightman
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.… — Eduardo Galeano
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is,… — Booth Tarkington
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them… — Ayn Rand
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around.… — Richard Carlson
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off… — Charles Bukowski
Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities. — Jane Jacobs
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be… — John Green
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had… — Anne Fadiman
Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets… — Pablo Neruda
But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got… — Kurt Vonnegut
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if… — Sara Gruen
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests… — Jean Webster

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