Action Rod Bends

Famous quotes containing the words action, rod and/or bends:

    “Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
    Yet with my nobler reason ‘gainst my fury
    Do I take part. The rarer action is
    In virtue than in vengeance.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Alas,

    For the tireless heart within the little
    Lady with rod that made them rise
    From their noon apple-dreams, and scuttle
    Goose-fashion under the skies!”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
    One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep,
    Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze
    That whirls the ‘wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)