Belt Fixed Link

Famous quotes containing the words belt, fixed and/or link:

“He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar, and we can’t beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

“To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)