Crowding Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these… — Austin Phelps
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could… — K. Eric Drexler
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know… — John Steinbeck
They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the… — Jacqueline Kelly
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. — Edward Abbey
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on,… — Alistair Cooke
Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding — Flannery O'Connor
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. — Oscar Wilde
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as… — Flannery O'Connor
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day… — Agnes Repplier
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty… — John Dryden
I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions. — Niall Horan
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we… — Jerry Saltz
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to… — Mercedes Lackey
The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the… — C.S. Lewis
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the… — Melissa Bank
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and… — Terri Irwin

Who Wrote These Crowding Quotes

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