Quotes About Wheels

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

In my heart I didn't see the need for a backpack. Wouldn't I be better off with a suitcase? Especially now that suitcases all had wheels. People never even talked about that anymore, and acted as if it had always been that way. Yet, all through my childhood, everyone had been yelling, "You'll hurt your back!" and wrenching suitcases out of each other's hands, in an effort to personally be the one who hurt their back.

Sergent Earl Hale sent us out to get transportation. We went out to look for what we could find. We came across Hitler's car, but it had no wheels. We found a bus, but it wouldn't start. We saw a fire truck and took that. On the way back to camp we had a wonderful time ringing the bell. Hale was upset. He didn't want a fire truck. - Henry Zimmerman

Behaviors are like bicycles. They can look different, but the core mechanisms are the same. Wheels. Brakes. Pedals.

I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.

I remember driving back from Portsmouth so tired that a voice in my head said I'll just close my eyes until I get to the bridge ahead. The next thing I knew was the wheels rumbling over the cat's eyes. I had tried to take a nap while driving. I'm not sure what Darwin would make of that.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

In the near distance he could hear the trundling sound of carriage wheels starting down the gravel drive.

The unpolished granite at the limits of homesteads, far fields, dry gulches, smoky hills, a foundation of grassy outlines, clumps of jonquils, and rotting wheels spokes. Rectangular, upright, chest-high squared limestone slabs, these high plains scarred by a single tree and magpie, slowly flying over dry seas.

A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

You have a case, Holmes? I remarked. The faculty of deduction is certainly contagious, Watson, he answered. It has enabled you to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more.

Then there were the angels composed of interlocking wheels covered in sparkling eyes, and the seraphim who had six wings and spent their days circling God's throne, bigging him up through song.

Some internal affairs ministers are 1915s model and some are 1938s model. .. All have common "small" problems, none of them have driving wheels or brakes. You can't know where they'll go or when they'll stop. (Referring to events of 1915 [Armenians] and 1938 [Tunceli Alevis], on the quote of IA minister Idris Naim Sahin saying that PKK terror organization is same as BDP)

The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

The rain feeds the seed, and the seed the mill. When the rain stops, the mill wheels stop — or, if they continue to turn, they grind despair for the man who owns them. My father owned them.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..