Desultorily Quotes & Sayings

The party was like many another. Conversation began desultorily, gathered a swift but feeble energy, and trailed irrelevantly into other conversations; laughter was quick and nervous, and it burst like tiny explosives in a continuous but unrelated barrage all over the room; and the members of the party flowed casually from one place to another, as if quietly occupying shifting positions of strategy. — John Williams

But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting. — Julian Barnes

Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone from its shadowy, crowded position between an ugly little Aztec idol, the fossil egg of a dinornis, and an obscene fetish of black wood from the Niger. — H.P. Lovecraft

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor. — Trey Gowdy

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. — E.W. Howe

One man's weakness is another man's mercy. — Lydia Millet

the oil-producing countries hate our guts and would like to — Catherine Coulter

It was a harsh reminder that one never knew the true depths of another soul. A caution against passing judgment over another. — Sabrina York

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. — Wangari Maathai