Famous quotes containing the words the best of, the best, the, alan, parsons and/or project:
“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealthy of seas, the spoils of war?
They sought a faiths pure shrine!
Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod;
They have left unstained what there they found,
Freedom to worship God.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (17831835)
“Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
—Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
“I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners. A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“Oh Death he is a little man,
And he goes from do to do ...”
—Federal Writers Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)