Received Amadeus

Famous quotes containing the words received and/or amadeus:

    “However backwards the world has been in former ages in the discovery of such points as GOD never meant us to know,—we have been more successful in our own days:Mthousands can trace out now the impressions of this divine intercourse in themselves, from the first moment they received it, and with such distinct intelligence of its progress and workings, as to require no evidence of its truth.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.”
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)