Mainsprings Quotes & Sayings

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success. — Orrin Woodward

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. — Francis Kelley

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world. — Mary Gaitskill

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine. — Ronald Reagan

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist. — J.K. Rowling

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead. — Margaret Mitchell

I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself. — Rob Lowe

He, of all people, understood all about these hidden mainsprings in the twisted gadgetry of the soul. — Andre Aciman

Sometimes when I'm walking through the dining hall, just saying hello to people, she'll drag me by my sleeve to hurry me up.
"You have too many friends," she'll say.
"I'm pretty sure that's not possible. And, anyway, I wouldn't call them all 'friends.'"
"There are only so many hours in the day, Simon. Two, three people - that's all any of us have time for."
"There are more people than that in your immediate family, Penny."
"I know. It's a struggle. — Rainbow Rowell

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation. — Ronald Reagan

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it. — Jane Goodall

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. — H.R. Giger