Famous quotes containing the words close and/or support:
“No. We haven’t seen the end of them. We’ve only had a close view of the beginning of what may be the end of us.”
—Ted Sherdeman. Gordon Douglas. Dr. Medford (Edmund Gwenn)
“All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)