Single Reached Number

Famous quotes containing the words single, reached and/or number:

“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

“A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)