Year Cycle Including

Famous quotes containing the words year, cycle and/or including:

    Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
    When the last fires will wave to me
    William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
    Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)