Famous quotes containing the words defending and/or pieces:
“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I was even more surprised at the power of the waves, exhibited on this shattered fragment, than I had been at the sight of the smaller fragments before. The largest timbers and iron braces were broken superfluously, and I saw that no material could withstand the power of the waves; that iron must go to pieces in such a case, and an iron vessel would be cracked up like an egg- shell on the rocks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)