Famous quotes containing the words wide, range and/or system:
“And now in one hours time Ill be out there again. Ill raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.”
—Colin Welland (b. 1934)
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Each generations job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generations system of values for a new age.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)