Famous quotes containing the words buying and/or power:
“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)