Famous quotes containing the words major, land and/or reform:
“As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with characters, or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons in history. History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“... were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say, that the land was the fairest in the world.”
—Frances Trollope (17801863)
“There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill. In morals the only sliders are backsliders.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)