Crowded Quotes

310 quotes by 278 authors

The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do… — Anne Fadiman
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a… — William Henry Hudson
I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge
I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it… — Nancy Lancaster
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises… — Eric Hoffer
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their… — Dalai Lama
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about… — Noah Cicero
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who… — Francis Chan
One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith… — Tommy Chong
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house… — Laozi
I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep. — Laura Dern
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets… — Samuel Johnson
Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place… — Alexander MacLaren
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning… — Dalton Trumbo
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is… — Nancy Travis
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor… — Chuck Palahniuk

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