Natural Resting Potential

Famous quotes containing the words natural, resting and/or potential:

    “Having reached the term of his natural life”; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I am constant as the northern star,
    Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
    There is no fellow in the firmament.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of “other women who do it” and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.
    —Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)