Famous quotes containing the words lucky, strike and/or bar:
“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accidentthe luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)
“Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each others strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Think ... before the wordsthe vows are spoken, which put yet another terrible bar between us.... I call upon you in the name of God ... to be sincere with meCan you, my Annie, bear to think I am anothers?”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)