Seat Remained Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words seat, remained and/or vacant:

    “Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion: nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century and dwarfs an age to an hour.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations—past and present—are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual’s hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “The worlds revolve like ancient women
    Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)