Command Entire Period

Famous quotes containing the words command, entire and/or period:

“For experience showed her that she had not, by marrying a man of a large fortune, obtained any great proportion of property which she could call her own or command at her pleasure.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)