Famous quotes containing the words wide, range and/or system:
“... Farewell then,
Until, under a better sky
We may meet expended, for just doing it
Is only an excuse. We need the tether
Of entering each others lives, eyes wide apart, crying.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”
—Han Suyin (b. 1917)
Related Phrases
Related Words