Famous quotes containing the words air, task and/or force:
“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Undoubtedly if we were to reform this outward life truly and thoroughly, we should find no duty of the inner omitted. It would be employment for our whole nature.... But a moral reform must take place first, and then the necessity of the other will be superseded, and we shall sail and plow by its force alone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)