Famous quotes containing the words present, danger and/or test:
“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land.”
—Marshall McLuhan (19111980)
“Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the heads being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
Related Phrases
Related Words