Metastasizing Quotes & Sayings

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. — Frank Rich

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world. — Richard Simmons

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom. — Sri Aurobindo

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children. — Salman Khan

In fact I believe that one day a reappraiser will come and declare that, far from having been a frivolous firebird, I was a rigid moralist: kicking sin, cuffing stupidity, ridiculing the vulgar and cruel - and assigning sovereign power to tenderness, talent and pride. — Vladimir Nabokov

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music. — T Bone Burnett

To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer. — L. Neil Smith

When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer. — Bryant McGill

This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life. — Tahereh Mafi

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. — Scott Adams

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own. — Paul Feig

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise. — Waylon Jennings

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism. — Bryant McGill

Why did Marx and Lenin succeed were Hong and Mahdi failed? Not because socialist humanism was philosophically more sophisticated than Islamic and Christan theology, but rather because Marx and Lenin devoted more attention to understanding the technological and economic realities of their time than to perusing ancient texts and prophetic dreams — Yuval Noah Harari

The town they entered differed little from any other he had been in lately. The ubiquitous Perkins, Applebees, Buffalo Wild Wings, Qdoba, and Panda Express were situated around the central hub that was Walmart, like appendages of some spider or octopus. Like some metastasizing tumor that threatened to overwhelm the town. — James Rozoff

So the list went, a fair percentage collecting both welfare and dust, moldering in the stale air of subsidized apartments as their testes shriveled day by day, consumed by the metastasizing cancer called assimilation and susceptible to the hypochondria of exile. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I smoothed Colton's blanket across his chest and tucked him in snug the
way he liked - and for the first time since he started talking about heaven, I
intentionally tried to trip him up. "I remember you saying you stayed with
Pop," I said. "So when it got dark and you went home with Pop, what did
you two do?"
Suddenly serious, Colton scowled at me. "It doesn't get dark in heaven,
Dad! Who told you that?"
I held my ground. "What do you mean it doesn't get dark?"
"God and Jesus light up heaven. It never gets dark. It's always bright."
The joke was on me. Not only had Colton not fallen for the "when it gets
dark in heaven" trick, but he could tell me why it didn't get dark: "The city
does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives
it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. — Todd Burpo

We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions. — Jacque Fresco

Radicalism was like a cancer, metastasizing around the globe until every country was infected by it. — Kaylea Cross