Machinery Quotes

316 Machinery quotes by 257 unique authors

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. — Jorge Luis Borges
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math,… — Thomas Moore
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon… — Ray Bradbury
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would… — C.S. Lewis
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as… — Peter Benchley
Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery. — Ken Kesey
So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once… — Catherynne M. Valente
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times… — Tom Robbins
Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy… — Henry Miller
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:… — Lorrie Moore
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery. — Dashiell Hammett
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities,… — Charlie Chaplin
It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he… — Philip K. Dick
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with… — Charlie Chaplin
Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of… — Daniel Handler
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they… — Charles Bukowski
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a… — Marie Curie
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our… — J. William Fulbright
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear.… — Henry Ward Beecher
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless. — Charles Simmons
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the… — Hannah Arendt
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect… — William Jennings Bryan
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine… — Simon Newcomb
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of… — Deepak Chopra

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