Famous quotes containing the words left, ideal and/or generated:
“What’s left to sigh for,
Strange night has come;
God’s love has hidden him
Out of all harm,
Pleasure has made him
Weak as a worm.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of us—wild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we can’t control.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)
“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)