Famous quotes containing the words narrow, pulse and/or pressure:
“On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts usah! what a dream, to live in that!the other stifles us at the first breath.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (18731954)
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)