Famous quotes containing the words degree, heart and/or block:
“There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope
than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when
it is long deferred.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)
“The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)