Famous quotes containing the words pulling and/or machine:
“The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)