Famous quotes containing the words system and/or packet:
“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“we know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)