Famous quotes containing the words side, force and/or due:
“For I loved the man and do honour his memory, on this side of idolatry, as much as any.”
—Ben Jonson (15731637)
“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“Im glad to find that you dislike Venice because I thought it detestable when we were there, both timesonce it might be due to insanity but not twice, so I thought it must be my fault. I suppose the obscurer reaches might be beautiful.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
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