Engine Quotes
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Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
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Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.
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But he just seems to have an engine . . . that allows him to run marathons pretty well. He's also very solid. He had very few injuries in college, a little bit of a calf problem freshman year, that was it.
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The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.
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Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
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I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.
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I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky.
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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.
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When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.
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Under the vaulted arch of its white iron-and-glass roof it was as if IKEA had been hired to refit St. Pancras station. If Thomas the Tank Engine had been Swedish, his living room would have looked just the same.
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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
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I saw his engine and car in half and I tried to keep looking away.
