Famous quotes containing the words give and/or focus:
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)