Top 57 Quotes About Levers
#1. Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
#2. The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.
Hans Kmoch
#3. We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
Bill Maris
#4. Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.
Simon Critchley
#5. The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#6. We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.
Louis MacNeice
#7. Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#8. I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.
Steve Ells
#9. The brain is your emotional cockpit. Lots of buttons and levers. Best to learn how to steer responsibly.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#10. Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
Emma Bull
#11. For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.
Rudolf Rocker
#13. I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
Charles Handy
#14. In a sense, we here at the FSRI are like giant wizards at the controls of an incredible machine, operating levers and buttons from behind a great tapestry to provide you with the level of motivation and direction necessary for you to succeed!
Martin Fossum
#15. Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy.
Daniel D. Palmer
#17. If you knew which levers to pull, you could stop time just long enough to save the things you love most.
Ariel Sabar
#18. I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.
Susan Faludi
#19. For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
Eduardo Saverin
#20. Shunning the bureaucratic levers of the past and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves.'1 Whatever
Owain Service
#21. Offerings for charity that Catholics from throughout the world sent to the Vatican were being used to plug up deficits created by a handful of Church officials who maneuvered the bureaucratic levers of the Holy See.
Gianluigi Nuzzi
#22. Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called ... Eenie, meenie, miney ... mo!
-Bobby Pendragon
D.J. MacHale
#26. To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.
Lemony Snicket
#27. I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Margaret Thatcher
#28. Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
Edward Abbey
#29. Push the buttons. Pull the levers. Pretty soon, reality just flows off and away.
Haruki Murakami
#30. Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
Pete Du Pont
#31. No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
Geraldine Brooks
#32. The Net's interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.
Nicholas Carr
#33. I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
Neil Innes
#34. While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
Bill Owens
#35. Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.
Chris Hedges
#36. I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.
Robert Harris
#37. The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.
Lesslie Newbigin
#38. I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it ... but the women work most for it.
Frances Harper
#39. Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
Terry Pratchett
#40. Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
Jim Wallis
#41. Six rats are thumping away at levers, ignoring food, drink, sleep, and sex. What's going through their little brains? A chemical known as dopamine, that's what. A lot of it. Dopamine
Hugh Howey
#42. To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.
Richard Rohr
#43. Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
Fred Reed
#44. You can push my buttons all you want. Just don't pull any of my levers.
Carroll Bryant
#45. A more precise
description of Levers's duties may be found under the general order of January 1, 1778, Barrack Master General's Office, PCC, M247, r99,i7, v15,417.
Francis Fox
#47. The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
William O. Douglas
#48. Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing.
Terry Pratchett
#49. The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.
Albert Camus
#50. Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.
Steven D. Levitt
#53. The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.
J. Bowyer Bell
#55. Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?
Rush Limbaugh
#56. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
Joseph Conrad
#57. Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
Simone Weil
