Mechanical Engineering Short Quotes & Sayings

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself. — Charles Dickens

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way. — Joseph Butler

Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation. — Emma Goldman

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future. — Rajneesh

Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything. — Virginia Woolf

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit. — Michel De Montaigne

The people who act as if they have it all figured out have little to offer me because I have nothing to offer them. There's no growth. There's no learning. We think of self-doubt as a hindrance, as a kind of deficiency. But it doesn't have to be a deficiency. When you have doubt, you have more. You have the problem plus doubt. You have more fuel, more reasons to work hard, more to prove. More. — Ross McCammon

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it. — Alfred Stieglitz

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. — Chuck Palahniuk

Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. — Thomas Mann

You are exactly the mom God knew your children needed. — Lysa TerKeurst