Famous quotes containing the words tie, breaking and/or votes:
“No one can tear your thread out of himself.
No one can tie you down or set you free.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (17831835)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
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