Steam Quotes

Steam Quote of the day

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

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.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing.

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

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

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship