Famous quotes containing the words the best, the, alan, parsons and/or project:
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. Dyou know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other mens left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“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)
“... one of art photographys most vigorous enterprises[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunatebut without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)