Contracted

Famous quotes containing the word contracted:

    “In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “[If a woman athlete who had contracted the AIDS virus admitted that she] had been with one hundred or two hundred men, they’d call her a slut, and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon.”
    —Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

    “This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.”
    —T.E. (Thomas Edward)