High Starting Torque

Famous quotes containing the words high, starting and/or torque:

    “As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “what most appals
    Is that tiny first shiver,
    That stumble, whereby
    We know beyond doubt
    They have almost run out
    And are starting to die.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.”
    —Diane Glancy (b. 1941)