Groseclose Quotes & Sayings

This,' said the stranger softly, as if to himself, 'is the woeful proof, indeed, of decadence. Man waives his prerogative of lordship over the irreclaimable savagery of earth. He has warmed his temperate house of clay to be a hot-house to his imagination, till the very walls are frail and eaten with fever.'
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense. — Eraldo Banovac

... the fact that it [the US] can, at will, drop bombs with only a few hours' notice, at absolutely any point on the surface of the planet. No other government has ever had anything remotely like this sort of capacity. In fact, a case could well be made that it is this very power that holds the entire world monetary system, organized around the dollar, together — David Graeber

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention. — Elgin Groseclose

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean. — Rick Springfield

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". — P.G. Wodehouse

It was like trying to teach subtlety to a thunderstorm. — Erica Bauermeister

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance. — Maajid Nawaz

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web. — Marissa Mayer

I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his. — El-P

A spiritual connection with someone lasts forever, even when physical presence fades. — Danielle Barone

26. If you would ask me to give you one thing, I will surely give you with the ability to see through my eyes so you will realize that you are one of my greatest treasures. — Karen Powers

If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies. — Pope Francis

Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide. — Elgin Groseclose

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world. — Donna Rice

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start. — Friedrich Nietzsche