Famous quotes containing the words reach, core and/or collapse:
“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails—aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.”
—John Guare (b. 1938)
“The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.”
—Jerome (c. 340–420)