Shot Backs

Famous quotes containing the words shot and/or backs:

“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we begin to keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)