Famous quotes containing the words extreme, vertical and/or spread:
“I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to Gods throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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