Famous quotes containing the words fleet, problem and/or xix:
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“Our political problem now is “Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever—half slave, and half free?” The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm XIX (l. XIX, 4–5)