Famous quotes containing the words secure, boot and/or mode:
“Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)
“Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)