Engines Quotes

151 quotes by 132 authors

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I… — Frontinus
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't… — Bill Gates
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with… — John Milton
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to… — Thomas Browne
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,… — Martin Van Buren
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the… — Jacque Fresco
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using… — Max Frisch
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam… — Clyde Tombaugh
SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them... so hard they f***ing bleed — David Naylor
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a… — Dale Dye
Gentlemen, start your engines! — Tony Hulman
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons… — Francois Rabelais
What the Londoner sees in his mindâ€™s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset,… — John Betjeman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development… — Barbara Tuchman
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no picturesâ€”unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement.… — John W. Davis
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. — Richard Whately
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon

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