World Single Distance

Famous quotes containing the words world, single and/or distance:

“The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance, we have kissed away
Kingdoms and provinces.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The modern city hardly knows pure darkness or pure silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“It is the simplest relation of phenomena, and describes the commonest sensations with more truth than science does, and the latter at a distance slowly mimics its style and methods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)