Machinery Quotes

316 Machinery quotes by 257 unique authors

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan
All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive… — Irwin Schiff
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down… — Ellen Goodman
Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to… — Joan Littlewood
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination… — Cordell Hull
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for… — Alexander Berkman
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to… — Peter Thiel
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just… — Bruce Dickinson
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans. — Herman Wouk
I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to… — L. Frank Baum
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped… — Mother Jones
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing… — Terry Winograd
There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery… — Bruce Bartlett
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up,… — Joel Salatin
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. — Moncure D. Conway
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent… — Nancy Gibbs
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the… — William Allingham
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling… — T.C. Boyle
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to… — Aldrich Ames
Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down. Machinery… — Jim Mullen
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun
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
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. — James Mark Baldwin

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