John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903) British politician
Source: A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), Chapter 2 (2nd edition, Vol. 1, London: Longmans, 1869, p. 294 https://books.google.it/books?id=hdUJs_S3ezwC&pg=PA294)
“Certain winds will make men's temper bad.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
“Men will deal rude blows to that which is the cause of their life: They will thrash the grain.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“To keep through life the posture of the grave,
While others walk and run and dance and leap.”
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) English poet and translator
Sonnets of the Wingless Hours https://archive.org/details/sonnetswingless01leegoog (1894).
Joe Barton (1949) United States congressional representative from Texas
House of Representative Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Hearing on " Renewable Energy: Complementary Policies for Climate Legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20090325151942/http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090226/transcript_20090226_ee.pdf", , quoted in <br class="br">Context: Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can't transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It's just something to think about.
“Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, l. 13 (1807).
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer
"The Staff of Aesculapius"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)