Lever Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

The pen is the lever that moves the world. — Thomas De Witt Talmage
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,… — B. H. Liddell Hart
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… — David
Un homme n'a jamais pu eÂ lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a'Â Â lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never… — Honore de Balzac
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go… — Tina Fey
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. — Thomas Jefferson
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever -… — Jeffrey Kluger
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. — Daniel Webster
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a… — Haruki Murakami
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious… — Dave Barry
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift.… — Philip Pullman
It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained… — Chuck Palahniuk
Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason. — Patrick Rothfuss
All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong… — Isaac Marion
Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources. — Seth Priebatsch
I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India. — Nandan Nilekani
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. — Archimedes
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not… — Alexandre Dumas

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