Famous quotes containing the words superior and/or nerve:
“The superior person can find peace in poverty; the philosophical mind accepts the will of Heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce great poetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)