Draw In

Famous quotes containing the words draw in and/or draw:

    “Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

    “There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I always draw a parallel between oppression by the regime and oppression by men. To me it is just the same. I always challenge men on why they react to oppression by the regime, but then they do exactly the same things to women that they criticize the regime for.”
    —Sethembile N., South African black anti-apartheid activist. As quoted in Lives of Courage, ch. 19, by Diana E. H. Russell (1989)