"Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast."

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Source : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

Ethel M. Dell

#Wheels Quotes #Speed Quotes #Enough Quotes

“If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.”

Source : "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.
“I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.”
“At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.”
“Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.”
“...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.”
“Hope does not always require probability.”
“I am the only real truth I know.”

Source : Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”
“The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.”

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