Famous quotes containing the words national, spiritual and/or assembly:
“The progress
Is permanent like the preordained bulk
Of the First National Bank
Like fish sauce, but agreeable.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material worldmad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.”
—R.D. (Ronald David)
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
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