Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or chief:
“An air lambent with adult enterprise ...”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesnt prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C)
“Youre wounded! Nay, his soldiers pride
Touched to the quick, he said:
Im killed, Sire! And his Chief beside,
Smiling the boy fell dead.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
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