Defining Empty Sums

Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:

    The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a
    mountain lion.
    And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a million
    or two of humans
    And never miss them.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    At Timon’s villalet us pass a day,
    Where all cry out,What sums are thrown away!’
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)