Famous quotes containing the words hidden, object and/or game:
“It is no longer a flame hidden in my veins; now it is Venus in all her might fastened to her prey.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)