Famous quotes containing the words shooting, dead and/or catholic:
“Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)