Levers Quotes

78 quotes by 75 authors

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the… — Jim Wallis
When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes… — Stephen Covey
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. — Eduardo Saverin
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those… — Susan Faludi
I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art… — Daniel D. Palmer
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it… — Maria Cantwell
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some… — Neil Innes
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
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials. — Steve Ells
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
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
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

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