Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)