Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884)
“Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
—Irish proverb.
An English equivalent to this might be, To everything there is a season.
“The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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