Represent Parallel Notions

Famous quotes containing the words represent, parallel and/or notions:

    “All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “There isn’t a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back- door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)