Famous quotes containing the words war, world, von and/or period:
“Soldier, there is a war between the mind
And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
For that the poet is always in the sun,
Patches the moon together in his room
To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
Up down. It is a war that never ends.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)