Famous quotes containing the words lean, construction and/or ideals:
“Study me then, you who shall lovers be
At the next world, that is, at the next spring:
For I am every dead thing,
In whom love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness:
He ruined me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)