Famous quotes containing the words daily, rank and/or peak:
“My only crime
Was holding you too dear.
Was that the cause
You daily came less near a pause
Longer than life, if you decide it so?”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutions for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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