Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or loss:
“Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 15:22.
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)