Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:
“There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything hes no longer in your powerhes free again.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (18901980)