Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“There cannot be a pinch in death
More sharp than this is.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)