Command Entire Period

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

    “I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their consent.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.”
    —Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)

    “His singing carried me back to the period of the discovery of America ... when Europeans first encountered the simple faith of the Indian. There was, indeed, a beautiful simplicity about it; nothing of the dark and savage, only the mild and infantile. The sentiments of humility and reverence chiefly were expressed.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)