Spinning Mule Quotes & Sayings

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. — Markus Zusak

For the Soul; Ears are dumb,Eyes are blind,Mind is a juggler. — Aporva Kala

The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does. — Robin S. Sharma

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.' — Ron Conway

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space. — Jaggi Vasudev

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification. — Bruce Dickinson

I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277) — Gail Giles

Living is a hazardous profession. — Tobsha Learner

[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world. — Samuel Crompton

The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully. — Zhuge Liang

Its dead eyes were fixed on me and I'm sure it had no trouble locating me by sound, because I was hollering incoherently in an attempt to die angry at maximum volume. — Kevin Hearne

I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files. — Rhys Darby

I'm not just a cuckolded wife. — Elizabeth Edwards

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ. — John Piper

Maybe you should take some lessons from the forest crooner,' he suggests. — Leslea Wahl

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.] — Samuel Crompton