Standing Select

Famous quotes containing the words standing and/or select:

“Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible shore.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)