Famous quotes containing the words electrical, fire and/or select:
“Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.”
—Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery (18471929)
“Three things are never satisfied; four never say, Enough: Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, Enough.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 30:15.
“Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
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