Crowded Quotes - Page 12

• Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

  John Updike

  Art, Exercise, Men

  "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.

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• We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, God, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Passion, Feelings, Soul

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• But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Desire

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Vision, Encounters, Done

  "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations".

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• But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Sweet, Dark, Black

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• The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

  Willa Cather

  Memories, Reality, Years

  "My Antonia". Book by Willa Cather, 1918.

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• in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Rooms, Lips

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.68, Pelekanos Books

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• I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Want, Rooms, Stranger

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• The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Men, Jail

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

  Bill McKibben

  Zoos, Animal, Exotic

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.124, Random House

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• Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Strong, Resistance, Crowded Places

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• As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

  Zakk Wylde

  Eagles, House, Heavy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

  Princess Diana

  Wedding, Three, Bits

  Interview on Panorama (television program), 20 Nov. 1995

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• There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Lonely, Military, Marine Corps

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• We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up - the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.

  Tim Tharp

  Badass, Growing Up, Kids

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• I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

  Laura Dern

  Dog, Sleep, Animal

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• Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

  Samuel Johnson

  Squares, Cities, Together

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.72

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• Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Morning, War, Coffee

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Country

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 1 (1928)

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• Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

  Hunter Hayes

  Rebel, Different, Outcast

  Song: Invisible Hunter Hayes, Album: Storyline, 2014

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• May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Joy, May, Unexpected

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• Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Love Is, Two

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Running, Business, Yelling

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