Providing

Famous quotes containing the word providing:

“The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

“Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life’s ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)