Famous quotes containing the word sending:
“I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts—constantly persisted in—by the exercise of the pardoning power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Man has to awaken to wonder—and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“I don’t like sending ships to the bottom. What sailor does?”
—Screenwriter. Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)