Machinery Quotes

Machinery Quote of the day

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

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 threads

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

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 engine and I loved the machinery.

Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

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 present a finished product.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.