Famous quotes containing the words highest, surface and/or wind:
“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: Its four oclock ... At five I have my abyss.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (18731954)
“The King o Scots, and a his power
Canna turn Arthur OBower.”
—Unknown. The Wind (l. 34)
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