Counterweight Elevator Quotes & Sayings

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight. — Seth Shostak

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us. — Samuel Richardson

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts. — Virender Sehwag

Man was mark'd
A friend in his creation to himself,
And may, with fit ambition, conceive
The greatest blessings, and the highest honors
Appointed for him, if he can achieve them
The right and noble way. — Philip Massinger

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. — Dorothy Day

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy. — Ariel Pink

Are we gonna talk about it, or are we gonna pretend nothing's wrong? — Jodi Picoult

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments. — Marva Collins

Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that. — James Hetfield

In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one! — Mona Singh

Man may think human intellect and reasoning are almighty, that the brain is able to comprehend all truths of the world; but the verdict of God's Word is, vanity of vanities. — Watchman Nee

For though, in nature, depth and height
Are equally held infinite:
In poetry, the height we know;
'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift