Gross Quotes - Page 3

• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

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• One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

  Paris Hilton

  Night, Thinking, Giving

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• The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

  Thomas Malthus

  Order, Political, Speculation

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.10, eKitap Projesi

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  Fidel Castro

  Fake People, War, Hypocrisy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Rain, Smell

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• Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

  Alfred Austin

  Dream, Stars, Fall

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• I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

  William Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Memories, Purity

  William Wordsworth, Robert Burns (1816). “A letter to a friend of Robert Burns occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the life of Burns, by dr. Currie [in The works of Robert Burns].”, p.18

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• Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

  Frank Herbert

  Machinery, Ambiguous, Primitive

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.175, Penguin

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• The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

  Holly Sklar

  Dream, People, Wealth

  Holly Sklar (1980). “Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management”, p.44, South End Press

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• If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

  John Pilger

  Real, School, People

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• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Passion, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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• Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

  Ouida

  Money, War, Light

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.52, Ouida

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• I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Believe, America, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble is small, the fun is great.
  [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fun, Trouble, Dies

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• The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

  DJ Qualls

  Ideas, Sitting, Pay

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

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.

  Kathleen Madigan

  People, Scare, Calling

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Intelligence, Sides

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

  Alice Childress

  Prejudice, Ugly, Language

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• The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Flower, Expression, Taste

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• This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Female, Noble

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.145

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• The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

  Barbara Holland

  Government, Years, United States

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Pay, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.311

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