Conventional Internal Combustion

Famous quotes containing the words conventional, internal and/or combustion:

    “We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
    —Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)

    “The internal effects of a mutable policy ... poisons the blessings of liberty itself.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “The night has been unruly. Where we lay,
    Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,
    Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,
    And prophesying with accents terrible
    Of dire combustion and confused events,
    New-hatched to the woeful time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)