#wheel

And yet, so many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves to it. We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve. ↗

— Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

#fantasy #robert-jordan #series #wheel-of-time #family

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Burton

#anxiety #birds #cage #chain #climb

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. ↗

— Terry Waite

#justice #slowly #sometimes #wheels

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#best #best time #expand #people #time

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel. ↗

— Frank Dane

#big #blessed #circles #shall #talks

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. ↗

— Ted Danson

#attacks #because #claim #environmental #everybody

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found

Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#everybody #fighters #new #nobody #none