Top 36 Fulcrum Quotes
#1. Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
Ayn Rand
#2. My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen
#3. Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#4. 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
#5. There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.
Justin Cronin
#6. 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
#7. In any arrangement that hinges upon the fulcrum of trust there exists the leverage potential for crime.
Sean Terrence Best
#8. 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
#9. Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.
Jim Butcher
#10. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
#11. There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.
John Fowles
#12. The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.
Bryant McGill
#14. The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#15. To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.
Daniel Gilbert
#16. 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
#17. To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. The year swung past the fulcrum of another equinox.
Anthony Doerr
#19. 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
#20. Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down.
Scott Lynch
#22. Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
Jay Heinrichs
#23. The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved.
E. M. Bounds
#24. Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth
Archimedes
#25. Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.
Alastair Reynolds
#26. Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Ravi Zacharias
#27. Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#28. Taking pains, working hard, not flaunting his or her chops so much as relying on them, the pop artisan teeters on a fine fulcrum between the stern, sell-the-product morality of the workhorse and the artist's urge to discover a pattern in, or derive a meaning from, the random facts of the world.
Michael Chabon
#29. On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure.
Nayomi Munaweera
#30. Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
Joseph Campbell
#31. I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.
Davey Havok
#32. I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
Ellen DeGeneres
#33. Sometimes people just need a second chance because sometimes we are not ready when fate hands us the first chance"--Liv
Kerry Heavens
#34. I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
Kajol
#35. My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
Kate Christensen
#36. There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
William Osler
