Famous quotes containing the words operative, lives and/or design:
“I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“For I choose that my remembrances of him should be pleasing, affecting, religious. I will love him as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship, and not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as men do to those whom they fear. A passage read from his discourses, a moving provocation to works like his, any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)