Gross Quotes - Page 20

• We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Goal, Priorities

  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, en.kremlin.ru. May 10, 2006.

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• But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

  David Hume

  Love, Kindness, Passion

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.296, 谷月社

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• I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

  Erik Naggum

  Firsts, Forget, Within You

  Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?(Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 28, 2000.

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Book, Mind, Age

  "Stealing America's Future: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Liberalism". Book by William Steiner, 2010.

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Ignorance, Keys, Soul

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• As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Blood, Order

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.413

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

  Charles Fort

  Lying, Data, Mad

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

  Jack Nicholson

  Children, Past, People

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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