Common Design

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or design:

“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

“What but design of darkness to appall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)