Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings - a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionizes it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey
- The American Pageant: World War II
Like a drunken reveler calling for madder music and stronger wine, Hitler could not stop. The leaders of Britain and France, eager to appease Hitler, sought frantically to bring the dispute to the conference table. President Roosevelt, also deeply alarmed, kept the wires hot with personal messages to both Hitler and Mussolini urging a peaceful settlement. A conference was finally held in Munich, Germany, in September 1938.
