Top 100 Quotes About Wheels
#1. The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.
Thor Heyerdahl
#2. My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.
Lu Xun
#4. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Tom Robbins
#5. It's been nice to see you again. Another of those things you just say, a bit of grease to keep the wheels turning,
Stephen King
#6. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. I shook my head, and his eyes traveled up my wall to the ceiling. I could almost see the wheels spinning inside his head. "What are you up to?" I asked, narrowing my eyes.
"I'm trying to think of another bet.
Jamie McGuire
#8. We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn.
Bob Dylan
#9. Leisure is gone,
gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
George Eliot
#11. In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it ... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
Russell Simmons
#13. Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine
Sun Tzu
#14. Without oil the axle soon grows hot, and accidents occur; and if there be not a holy cheerfulness to oil our wheels, our spirits will be clogged with weariness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#15. With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
Aaron Gwin
#16. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#17. Give chance to your wheels to turn with their maximum potentials as long as your passion fuels your life. Don't give up; you are about to make an overturn!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. On the fourth ring there's the sound of fumbling. Then Kent's voice, warm and reassuring: 'Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. How can I help you?
Lauren Oliver
#19. You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
Haruki Murakami
#20. I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.
Aimee Bender
#21. Syd's strafing run at Florennes had been a feat of strafing skill. His cine-gun footage of the radar van was perfect. It showed radar operators diving out both sides of the brown box on wheels. Instead of congratulations, the Station Commander awarded him a $25 fine and a formal reproof.
R.J. Childerhose
#22. No, by God, it is false! It wasn't a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison - a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound the rolling of our carriage wheels as we went along the shaded avenues of the Taunus Wald.
Ford Madox Ford
#23. The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.
John Peers
#24. Never trust or take advice from someone who abandoned their childhood dream.
Chris Wheels
#25. Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
Colin MacInnes
#26. The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
#28. Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
Aldous Huxley
#29. Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.
Bob Dylan
#30. My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#31. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.
Jim Carrey
#33. The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.
Marjane Satrapi
#34. Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Time-piece of Creation.
Friedrich Schiller
#35. The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. The chakras or force-centers are points of connection at which energy flows from one body of a man to another ... all these wheels are perpetually rotating, and into the hub or open mouth of each a force from a higher world is always flowing.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#37. The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
Charles Babbage
#38. Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
Douglas Adams
#39. At the heart of daily punishment and sufferings, in the very wheels of encroaching mediocrity, are found both the keys and the doors to inner worlds.
Jean-Pierre Turmel
#40. We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#41. Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
William James
#42. I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we're going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don't care who you are.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#43. A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#44. The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
Robert Morley
#45. The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.
Rachel Kushner
#46. I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing ... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
Callan McAuliffe
#47. To see distinctly the machinery
the wheels and pinions
of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. When you had a set of wheels that could take you anywhere, you didn't walk away from it.
Joe Hill
#50. The Quakers pray as the spirit moves them; but to let oneself be moved by the spirit is an arduous business. Kindlier and more worldly churches, with a feeling for human weakness, provide their worshipers with rituals, litanies, beads and prayer wheels.
Aldous Huxley
#51. I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.
Brene Brown
#52. The postman on his bicycle, she envied him, envied his wheels kissing the cobbles, that he knew one language only, one country only, envied his undivided past, undivided from his future.
Anouk Markovits
#53. Comforting assurance cannot be felt if the distance is measurable" - Wheels of Wish
Bibhu Datta Rout
#54. Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.
Laozi
#55. Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.
Quint Studer
#56. Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..
Bob Dylan
#57. Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#58. Q: Why do you blog?
A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.
Ophelia Benson
#59. My house on wheels will have two feet once again and my dreams no frontiers, at least until the bullets have their say. I await you, sedentary gypsy, when the smell of gunpowder dissipates.
John Lee Anderson
#60. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.
John Steinbeck
#61. Man is bestowed with the power to build everything he can imagine.
Bibhu Datta Rout
#63. The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Jack Nicholson
#65. And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#66. Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.
Rashi
#67. The Big Dipper wheels on its bowl. In years hence it will have stopped looking like a saucepan and will resemble a sugar scoop as the earth continues to wobble and the dipper's seven stars speed in different directions.
Ann Zwinger
#69. Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope
#70. Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
George Herbert
#71. I guess you're not gonna be happy til' it's for real. Four year old kids, doing drive-bys on Big Wheels.
Big Daddy Kane
#72. Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Wilfred Owen
#73. If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.
Henry Miller
#74. If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?
William Hartnell
#75. Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
Edward Young
#76. Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
William Shakespeare
#77. I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
Wale
#78. Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#79. If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.
Vincent Frank
#81. I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.
Gucci Mane
#82. I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
John Mellencamp
#83. I have lifted my plane ... for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.
Beryl Markham
#84. I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.
Jane Addams
#85. Nature is kind to him who goes on foot, and makes him aware of beauties and delights never discovered to the traveller on wheels.
Walter White
#86. Norman Cherry wrote on Twitter:
'Recently finished reading War on Wheels: a wonderful account of the people and systems necessary to fight a successful war. I really enjoyed reading it. Thoroughly researched, well written, very accessible and suitable for specialist or general reader.
Philip Hamlyn Williams
#87. Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Andrew Lang
#88. I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
Pamela Anderson
#89. Do that thing you love until the wheels fall off!
Phil Wohl
#90. Oh my God, this can't be happening!" I cried.
"What?"
"Mopeds? Those are the wheels Pete gives us? I knew he was pissed off at me! It was all that time I spent in the hospital wasn't it? Or was it the wrecks? But I only tore up one car last time! And that wasn't my fault!
Jennifer Rardin
#91. I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.
Stephen Rodrick
#92. There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
Croesus
#93. [Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.
Marin Mersenne
#94. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
Aldous Huxley
#95. Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.
Megan Crane
#96. The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. We have to reinvent the wheel every once every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors.
Bruce Joyce
