Accidental Jet

Famous quotes containing the words accidental and/or jet:

    “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions ... too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “I cannot beat off
    Invincible modes of the sea, hearing:
    Be a man my son by God.
    He turned again
    To the purring jet yellowing the murder story,
    Deaf to the pathos circling in the air.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)