Descending Chain Condition

Famous quotes containing the words descending, chain and/or condition:

    “The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”
    —André Gide (1869–1951)