Thin Double Layer

Famous quotes containing the words thin, double and/or layer:

    What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,
    Ease me with death by bidding me got too.
    Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
    And a just office on a murderer do.
    Except it be too late to kill me so,
    Being double dead: going, and bidding go.
    John Donne (1572–1631)

    This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there’s a layer of people who run everything. But we—we’re just peasants. We don’t understand what’s going on, and we can’t do anything.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)