Wharton Quarterly Model

Famous quotes containing the words wharton and/or model:

    When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

    ...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent—the State, family life, secular art and science—was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)