Famous quotes containing the words average, ground and/or pressure:
“May you be ordinary;
Have, like other women,
An average of talents....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)