Intoned Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. — Tiffany Madison

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. — Omar Nelson Bradley

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely. — Emily Yoffe

For a girl, with each boy it's as though a petal gets plucked each time. — Susan Minot

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible. — Mahatma Gandhi

It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator. — John Negroponte

Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire? — Geoffrey Hill

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him — Hansie Cronje

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind. — Dallas Willard

Don't lose yourself, don't let yourself be lost, he said, and these were unexpected, enigmatic words that did not seem to fit the occasion. — Jose Saramago

A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical cables, sewer lines for bowels, pipes full of pressurized steam and others carrying gas, valves and fans and filters and meters and motors and transformers and tens of thousands of interlinked computers, and though its people sleep, the city never does. — Dean Koontz

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. — Jonathan Ames

The "No bullshit" version of who you are can work with a compass. Your ego needs a map because it does not quite understand the wise words of Paul Jarvis, "Nobody is successful because they took somebody else's roadmap and copied it. — Srinivas Rao

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content. — Carrie Brownstein