#automobile

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#accident #automobile #bracket #girdle #higher

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#amount #area #automobiles #destroying #efforts

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. ↗

— James Norman Hall

#abominations #automobile #been #charm #communities

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#car #funny #humor #religious #funny

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#accidents #american #automobile #beef #century

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#firearms #licensing #pass #people #registration

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#automobile #could #destroy #did #many

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#across #arizona #automobile #come #devastating