Famous quotes containing the words social, credit and/or candidate:
“The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment ones own growing inner self.... The minds dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of ones own solitude, that solitude whose final form is ones confrontation with ones own mortality.”
—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)
“What are the characteristics of todays world so that one may recognize it by them? It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“A candidate once called his opponent a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous, pestilential, pernicious, and perversable liar without pausing for breath, and even his enemies removed their hats.”
—Federal Writers Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)