Famous quotes containing the words population and/or wanted:
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
“Thief!
how did you crawl into,
crawl down alone
into the death I wanted so badly and for so long,
the death we said we both outgrew....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)