Full Potential Equation

Famous quotes containing the words full, potential and/or equation:

“These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is “in full blast” within.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)