Quotes by Cogs If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. Aldo Leopold tinkering cogs land To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold cogs intelligent nature The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire. Charles Caleb Colton cogs liberty fire I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself. Charlize Theron cogs pressure thinking Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen. Colum McCann cogs men believe Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. David Corbett cogs plot character Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. Deborah Tannen cogs independence communication Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence Deborah Tannen cogs independence communication You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. Douglas Coupland cogs eccentric worry I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else. Edith Wharton cogs machines use Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. George Orwell cogs capitalist machines Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice. Ha Jin cogs voice writing It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel. Janet Holmes a Court cogs business leadership In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake. Jean Cocteau cogs mistake men I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis. Jerome Kerviel cogs machines financial Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. Jiddu Krishnamurti cogs machines suffering Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs. Julian Assange cogs clinton different Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you. Keigo Higashino cogs world needs When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function. Ken Knabb cogs machines wonder I am not yet born; O fill me Louis MacNeice cogs humanity prayer 12»