#wheel

The wheel is come full circle. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#come #full #wheel

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ↗

— Jonathan Gilbert

#result #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced. ↗

— John Peers

#get #gets #greased #often #replaced

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#wheel-of-time #age

A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#carnival #ferris-wheel #forest #werewolf #wolf

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#binds #chariot #conditions #ever #fixed

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you Just as the Power serves us, but only after we surrender to it ↗

— Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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

How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night? ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sweet-valley #wheelchairs #dreams

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137) ↗

— Stephen Clarke

#bed #cannonball #cartoon #cartwheel #ceiling

And yet 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 from 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

#fantasy-fiction #robert-jordan #service #wheel-of-time #family