Loveless Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words loveless and/or attempts:

    Pray I will and sing I must,
    And yet I weep Oedipus’ child
    Descends into the loveless dust.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue, I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)