Levers Quotes

I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

The pen is the lever that moves the world.

Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.

I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.

The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Don't take too much advice.

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.