quotes about Wheelbarrows

last updated: November 28, 2023

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
-- Billy Graham

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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
-- Eric Temple Bell

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.
-- Martin Caidin

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“If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.”
“The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.”

Source : Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics
“Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!”
“I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.”
“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
“If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting the Jerusalem statement in a larger context of U.S. policy, it could have potentially advanced the peace process. But I don't see how singling it out might help.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”

Source : James Thurber (1955). “Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs”
“Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.”

Source : Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders
“Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.”