Fixed Line

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or line:

    “Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers
    animal vines twisting over the line and
    slapping my face lightly, soundless merriment
    in the gesticulations of shirtsleeves ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)