Levers Quotes

Levers Quote of the day

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

The pen is the lever that moves the world.

I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Don't take too much advice.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

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

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.