Closely Held Company

Famous quotes containing the words closely, held and/or company:

    “However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and now and again they notice it.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “So that this beautiful realm of hers was held in her mind extended, or lengthened: it had been finite, bounded, known utterly and in every detail, self-enclosed ... but now it lapped and rippled out and upwards beyond there into hinterlands that were like unknown possibilities in her own mind.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    “Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)