Chief Pleas Voted

Famous quotes containing the words chief, pleas and/or voted:

    “Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.”
    —Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

    “The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.”
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)