Compact Set Attains

Famous quotes containing the words compact, set and/or attains:

    “The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.”
    —Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

    “And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
    That dying chose the living world for text
    And never could have rested in the tomb
    But that, long travelling, he had come
    Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
    In a most desolate stony place....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When a thinking person attains adulthood and develops a mature consciousness, he reluctantly feels himself in a trap from which there is no exit.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)