Famous quotes containing the words left and/or rule:
“Women ... are the permanent victims.”
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 6 (1980)
“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)