Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:
“There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. There was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)