Black Heart Inertia

Famous quotes containing the words black, heart and/or inertia:

    Long sibilant-muscled trees
    Were lifting up, the black poplars.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
    Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter. Lewis Milestone. Yin Chu Ling, The Purple Heart (1944)

    What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning,” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)