Famous quotes containing the words previously experienced, previously, experienced and/or scene:
“What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as goodthe atavism of an older ideal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but Id rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)
“Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidden tear would flow. Alas! I cannot feel the satisfaction some appear to do in the reflection that her eyes beheld the scene from the other world.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)