Wheels Quotes - Page 7

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.

If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.