Decrowding Quotes & Sayings

A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry. — Susan Sontag

Daddy just repeated the word, internship. As an alibi, it was a thing of beauty: its overtones of responsibility, of upward aspiration, were perfectly calculated to jam his circuits. Well, you know, we've already booked you a seat on the first manned spaceflight, but I suppose if you have an internship . . . — Garth Risk Hallberg

Funny how, when one part of your life falls away, the other bits that are left start looking rather feeble. — Mhairi McFarlane

Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges ... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members. — Antoine Destutt De Tracy

As Alfred North Whitehead once put it, those who devote themselves to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose constitute an interesting subject for study. — Edward Feser

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does. — Tahir Shah

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. — Katherine Paterson