Fulcrum 7 Quotes

#1. The year swung past the fulcrum of another equinox.

Anthony Doerr

#2. The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Tom Brokaw

#3. Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down.

Scott Lynch

#5. Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

Jay Heinrichs

#6. Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth

Archimedes

#7. Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera, the present had receded to a point, had become the precarious fulcrum whereby history leveraged destiny. A mere formality.

R. Scott Bakker

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

Thomas Jefferson

#10. THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0

Lewis Carroll

#11. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

#12. The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

Robert Ferrigno

#13. In any arrangement that hinges upon the fulcrum of trust there exists the leverage potential for crime.

Sean Terrence Best

#14. YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

Ann Romines