Famous quotes containing the words private, key and/or property:
“One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Sunshine of late afternoon
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lyingAnd the
immaculate white bed”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)