Height Drives

Famous quotes containing the words height and/or drives:

“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“What people do who go into politics I can’t think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)