Established

Famous quotes containing the word established:

    “He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.”
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    “Thus truth’s established and borne out,
    Though circumstanced with dark and doubt—
    Though by a world of doubt surrounded.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on “The Survival of the Fittest.” These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)