Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“O for some sharp swish of a branch
there is no scent of resin
in this place.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The statements of science are hearsay, reports from a world outside the world we know. What the poet tells us has long been known to us all, and forgotten. His knowledge is of our world, the world we are both doomed and privileged to live in, and it is a knowledge of ourselves, of the human condition, the human predicament.”
—John Hall Wheelock (1886–1978)
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)