Crowded Quotes - Page 13

• The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

  Laozi

  Perfect, House, Design

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• One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

  Tommy Chong

  Night, Trying, Causes

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• When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, Feet, Atmosphere

  Arthur Koestler (1973). “The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the "Thank-offering to Britain Fund."”, Not Avail

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• O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Heart, Men

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• Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

  Francis Chan

  Church, Identity, Add

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2012). “Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples”, p.309, David C Cook

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• Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Silence, Rude

  John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.

  Muriel Box

  Always Alone, Restaurants

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• No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

  Steve Tesich

  Friendship, Moving, Space

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• If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Rivers

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• Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, Giving

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  New York, Home, Race

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• There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

  Cher

  Thinking, Adorable, Conferences

  "Benigni's 'Life' to be reborn in English language". www.cnn.com. March 26, 1999.

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• Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dragons, Sky, Space

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• If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Talking, Empathy, Understanding

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.44, John Wiley & Sons

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• Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Travel

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• The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Soul, Skins, Rooms

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Space, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

  Larry Wall

  Economy, Should, Illegal

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• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Animal, Thinking, Stressed

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

  Mia Farrow

  Taking The High Road, Lows, High Road

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• I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Rip, Brain

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.65, Lulu.com

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• I'm never going again on Met Gala. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fun, Ridiculous, Enjoy

  "Gwyneth Paltrow: The Met ball was not 'fun'" by Donna Freydkin, www.usatoday.com. May 8, 2013.

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• You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.

  Kit Harington

  Nice, Wine, Thinking

  "Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Talks Swordplay, Show Details, and Dating (P.S. He Likes Girls Who Eat!)". "Glamour" Interview, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2013.

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