“Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first Beemer. A particularly nice smell of leather. Something rather plain but satisfactory about the interior. And that lovely enamel wotsit in the middle of the steering wheel. A moment of quiet 'because I'm worth it' pride.” FirstsMomentsNiceMiddlePrideQuietSmellLovelyWheelsReplacedWorth ItInteriorsLeatherSteeringBritsVolvoAudi Author:Peter York
“Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.” GivingMomentsNextInfluenceBirthEnlightenmentChainsWheelsPerpetualBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.” MomentsSufferingNamesProcessBornExistenceGrowingSeaDyingPeriodsLifetimeTinyWanderSymbolsWheelsPerpetualAgain And AgainReincarnationUp And DownGrowing OldFractionsSingle LifeSamsara Author:Gautama Buddha
“My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.” ShouldTryingIdeasEndsMomentsDiesConversationTerroristFlyingWheelsAirplaneCrashPassengersTalk To MeFierySlow MotionSociability Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.” KnowsWritingMomentsGivenFeltForgetMovedWheelsPassagesDistractionScholarOrgansPipeLapsesDisregardedHeronsPipe Organs Author:Lucio Russo