Orville Wright Quotes

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general.

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

If you use power too loosely, you lose power.

You found out who your real friends were. Once you don’t have that perceived power and influence, you’re not necessarily any use any more. The phone doesn’t ring as much.

Receding power rides a swift horse.

If you constantly cross your own centers of power, you lose the energy that wins elections.

They will leave the King nothing other than the empty name of King, no more

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

How little authority I have