Operation Earnest

Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or earnest:

“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)