Famous quotes containing the words key, rate and/or duration:
“Sunshine of late afternoon
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lyingAnd the
immaculate white bed”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)