Famous quotes containing the words human, torch and/or appears:
“Them Oakies got no sense and no feeling. They ain’t human. No human being wouldn’t live the way they do. A human being couldn’t stand it to be so miserable.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)
“The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle-queen of yore,
Maryland! my Maryland!”
—James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)
“But that all his [Bishop Berkeley’s] arguments, though otherwise intended, are, in reality, merely sceptical appears from this, that they admit of no answer and produce no conviction. Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion, which is the result of scepticism.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)