Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“If the heart beguiles itself in its choice [of a wife], and imagination will give excellencies which are not the portion of flesh and blood:Mwhen the dream is over, and we awake in the morning, it matters little whether tis Rachael or Leah,be the object what it will, as it must be on the earthly side ... of perfection,it will fall short of the work of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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