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)
“All good things were previously wicked things; every original sin has become an original virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Anglers Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summers cloud?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, thats what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
—Adela Rogers St. Johns (18941988)