Territory Received Present

Famous quotes containing the words territory, received and/or present:

    Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    I waited alone, in the company of orchids, roses and violets who—like people waiting beside you, but to whom you are unknown—maintained a silence which their individuality of living things rendered more imposing and in their chilly manner received the heat from an incandescent coal fire, preciously placed behind a crystal glass, in a white marble tub where it dropped, from time to time, its dangerous rubies.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)