Fastened

Famous quotes containing the word fastened:

“The masses always end up wholeheartedly believing and following those individuals whom they themselves mock, individuals whom they curse and persecute, but individuals who, not fearing their curses or their persecution, continue steadily forward, having fastened a spiritual gaze on the only goal such individuals can see.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

“Anything we saw
And thus fastened on
With an epithet,
We would see to yet
We would want to touch,
Not to mention clutch.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)