Top 55 Cesspool Quotes

#1. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Jimmy Carter

Cesspool Quotes #23174
#2. If we reach the cities, we will reach the nation. If we fail in the cities, they will become a cesspool that infects the entire nation.

Patrick Johnstone

Cesspool Quotes #38258
#3. Even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.

Donna Tartt

Cesspool Quotes #40279
#4. Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

John Updike

Cesspool Quotes #71376
#5. Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,

Bernard Bailyn

Cesspool Quotes #166879
#6. Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

John Podhoretz

Cesspool Quotes #182785
#7. He's like a cesspool in the midst of my creative writing oasis.

Sandy Hall

Cesspool Quotes #186409
#8. It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.

Michael Connelly

Cesspool Quotes #214020
#9. If we ignorantly act to solely serve our agenda, we're simply slogging around in the egocentric and brackish backwaters of selfishness. Any response that comes out of that kind of cesspool will be vulgarly irresponsible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Cesspool Quotes #226165
#10. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There

Arthur Conan Doyle

Cesspool Quotes #375355
#11. My life of sin among people I'm sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.

Thomm Quackenbush

Cesspool Quotes #397770
#12. The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

Eric Schmidt

Cesspool Quotes #428694
#13. There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

Noah Hawley

Cesspool Quotes #438733
#14. Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

Donna Tartt

Cesspool Quotes #459311
#15. The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

Marshall McLuhan

Cesspool Quotes #545475
#16. If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

Jessica Valenti

Cesspool Quotes #603203
#17. The once deep reservoirs filled with our vast emotional understanding have evaporated over the generations and we are now nothing more than a shallow cesspool of impossible expectations

Phillip McCarron

Cesspool Quotes #635124
#18. Darlin', we live in a fuckin' cesspool of shit and dirty-ass motherfuckers, but if you found somethin' good and true, somethin' that you can bank on bein' there for you when everything else is fallin' apart around you, whoever it is, I'm good with it.

Madeline Sheehan

Cesspool Quotes #651347
#19. London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Cesspool Quotes #652273
#20. The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

Harlan Ellison

Cesspool Quotes #726948
#21. A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

Christiane Northrup

Cesspool Quotes #729055
#22. It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

John Jay Chapman

Cesspool Quotes #757326
#23. People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

David Lee Roth

Cesspool Quotes #819655
#24. I have come to the conclusion that Seinfeld is a dank cesspool of humanity.

Jesse Saperstein

Cesspool Quotes #842539
#25. [The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

Ed Koch

Cesspool Quotes #858137
#26. Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

George Sanders

Cesspool Quotes #880944
#27. Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

Cesare Pavese

Cesspool Quotes #904690
#28. I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

Nicolas Cage

Cesspool Quotes #907600
#29. I wasn't sure what was required for home schooling, but I'd take ten hours a day, seven days a week, with no bathroom or lunch breaks if it meant never returning to this cesspool of suck again.

Nicole Williams

Cesspool Quotes #914625
#30. Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component.

Eric Schmidt

Cesspool Quotes #915705
#31. A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

Marge Piercy

Cesspool Quotes #1009689
#32. [The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

Erykah Badu

Cesspool Quotes #1009892
#33. If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).

Alexander Strauch

Cesspool Quotes #1043832
#34. The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

C.S. Lewis

Cesspool Quotes #1115172
#35. For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cesspool Quotes #1178961
#36. To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Howard Crosby

Cesspool Quotes #1196217
#37. I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

Frank O'Hara

Cesspool Quotes #1245491
#38. Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.

Bill Maher

Cesspool Quotes #1299965
#39. It's bad enough that my brain is a cesspool; I can't imagine the hellhole my heart would be if he wasn't in it. Since

Katja Millay

Cesspool Quotes #1343024
#40. Washington's a cesspool of money.

Stewart Udall

Cesspool Quotes #1412223
#41. It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.

Peter Funt

Cesspool Quotes #1520040
#42. Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it ... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

Alexander Payne

Cesspool Quotes #1532205
#43. Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

Bernadine Dohrn

Cesspool Quotes #1535342
#44. As distasteful as it is to decline your invitation, I'm afraid that it is preferable to attending yet another half-assed weekend eating gunky canapes in that cesspool of a shack you call a beach cottage.

A.C. Kemp

Cesspool Quotes #1544957
#45. Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Garrett Hardin

Cesspool Quotes #1560499
#46. It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details
of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.

George Orwell

Cesspool Quotes #1569958
#47. We were fair game
but we have kept out of the cesspool.
We are strong.
We are the good ones.
Do not discover us
for we lie together all in green
like pond weeds.
Hold me, my young dear, hold me.

Anne Sexton

Cesspool Quotes #1609019
#48. The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy.

Robert Peate

Cesspool Quotes #1626842
#49. If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

Robert Higgs

Cesspool Quotes #1634372
#50. Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.

John Dos Passos

Cesspool Quotes #1735770
#51. For years they've grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is their cute nickname for the pope.

Sarah Vowell

Cesspool Quotes #1757851
#52. I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Ben Carson

Cesspool Quotes #1797729
#53. for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers,

David Webster

Cesspool Quotes #1846869
#54. How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Cesspool Quotes #1853379
#55. Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.

Thomas Aquinas

Cesspool Quotes #1873329

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