Continuous Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:

    I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
    Salvador Minuchin (20th century)

    There is a power in love to divine another’s destiny better than that other can, and, by heroic engagements, hold him to his task.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them.
    Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)