"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Machines Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Friction Quotes

“Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 149-52, Literary Character of Men of Genius, chapter VI, 1922.
“The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.”
“Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.”
“Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.”
“If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .”

Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book by James L. Harmon, 2007.
“Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice”

Source : Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). “The Mind of Oswald”, p.171, Trafford on Demand Pub
“Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.”
“Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?”

Source : "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". m.imdb.com. 1978.

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