Quotes About Lever

TIME IS ARCHIMEDES' LEVER in investing.    Archimedes is often quoted as saying, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth." In investing, that lever is time. (And the place to stand, of course, is a firm and realistic investment policy.)

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

the less popular of the two parties controls every lever of power at the federal level, as well as the majority of statehouses. The party that exercises such control proposes few policies that are popular with the society at large, and several that are generally unpopular—and thus must either fear democracy or weaken it.

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

I noticed I'd been leaning against something hard and metallic. It was another skull switch, just begging to be flicked. I started reaching for it but Arlene butted my hand away with her shotgun. That hurt. "You don't know what that's going to do," she protested. "I can't help it . . . I'm a born lever-puller." I flicked the tongue.

Of course, the skull's tongue had to be a lever. "I can't help it," I said, "I'm a born lever-puller.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn't discontent the lever of change?

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.