Artificial Limbs

Famous quotes containing the words artificial and/or limbs:

    “Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
    —George Washington (1732–1799)

    “If a man’s eye falls
    on any of her limbs first,
    it is stuck on that spot.
    No one at all sees her body whole.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)