White Tie/elements

Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:

    He thought that I was after him for a feather—
    The white one in his tail; like one who takes
    Everything said as personal to himself.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)