Famous quotes containing the words moves, lose and/or material:
“You like it under the trees in autumn,
Because everything is half dead.
The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves
And repeats words without meaning.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“We may outrun
By violent swiftness that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)