Desuetude Quotes

#1. After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

Grover Cleveland

#2. Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox - finally irregulationary.

Jack Vance

#3. What'd you need?"
"Desuetude."
"Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse."
"Thanks, man."
"That it?"
"Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

James Sallis

#4. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#5. It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Louis O. Kelso

#6. The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

Christian Slater

#7. The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten.

Unknown

#8. I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

Karl Lagerfeld

#9. You are brave ...
Now go ... do epic!
That's an order.
Do it.
Please.

Kim Holden

#10. Do not live in fear, Khalid-jan, for that is not a life.

Renee Ahdieh

#11. Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Therese De Lisieux

#13. Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.

Leopold Fechtner

#14. Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

William Wordsworth

#15. I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet ... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Elizabeth Hurley

#16. We are, all of us, fucked up in some way," she says. "The only difference is a matter of how deep our crazy goes and how we handle our shit. Frankly, I think the crazy comes and goes in cycles.

Kristen Callihan