One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. André Gide
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana
It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control. Charlotte Brontë
When we perpetually allow the practice of genocide and holocaust and consent to the denial of such actions to linger for decades as in the case of the Assyrian, Armenian and Pontic Greek Genocides, we are in essence consenting to denial as a compromise. Denial is not compromise. Rosie Malek-Yonan
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Christopher Columbus
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . . Walter Lippmann