But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.
Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths of exquisite interrelationships of the awesome machinery of nature
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.
I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.