Inclined Plane Quotes

#1. It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

Charles Dickens

#3. The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Steven Pinker

#4. You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

Jeff Van Gundy

#5. I told you it was easy," HARV said.
"True, but you say that about everything."
"That's because everything is easy for me."
"Everything but humility."
"No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.

John Zakour

#6. He'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon ...

Thomas Hardy

#7. Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.

Francis Bacon

#8. I was still learning when I taught my last class.

Claude Moore Fuess

#9. I believe that music is God's voice.

Brian Wilson