Famous quotes containing the words wind, generation and/or facility:
“We profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The women of my mothers generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
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