Devolved Quotes

#1. Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Millard Fillmore

#2. When York's son, hitherto Earl of March, learned that his father's cause had devolved upon him he did not shrink. He fell upon the Earl of Wiltshire and the Welsh Lancastrians, and on February 2, 1461, at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, near Hereford, he beat and broke

Winston S. Churchill

#3. Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

John Charles Chasteen

#4. On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

Andrea Seigel

#6. With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Timothy Noah

#7. We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

Michael Scheuer

#8. Idealism has devolved into madness.

Ralph Peters

#9. My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Ezra Cornell

#10. Merry's mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William's lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and held.

Susan Catalano

#11. Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

Tammy Bruce

#12. Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

Todd Rundgren

#13. My life had devolved into a fluorescent haze of desktop Outlook/Internet Explorer/Excel screens by day followed by laptop Chrome/Facebook/Netflix nights.

Wayne Gladstone

#14. My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Trey Anastasio

#15. I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Ben Stein

#16. Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

Karel Capek

#17. Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness.

G.S. Jennsen

#18. Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

John Ridley

#19. Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

Gary Wright

#20. Ethan didn't miss those things. Didn't wish that his son was growing up in a world where people stared at screens all day. Where communication had devolved into the tapping of tiny letters and humanity lived by and large for the endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail.

Blake Crouch

#21. The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:
'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

John Green

#22. He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.

Audrey Niffenegger

#23. The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

Mark Hart

#24. From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable.

Jonathan L. Ferrara

#25. When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

Nora Roberts

#27. Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

Lee Smolin

#28. Don't give up on your alphabet.

Penny Reid

#29. The thing is that I do believe in college, and jobs, and maybe even babies one day. I believe in the future. Maybe it's a character flaw, but for me it is a congenital one.

John Green

#30. I once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning.

Mark Twain

#31. When you are in love, you do all sorts of crazy, impossible things with and for the person you love.

M.F. Moonzajer

#32. At this particular moment, there's just no question about it.

David Levithan

#33. I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.

Riccardo Tisci

#34. In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.

Jerry Saltz

#35. The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#36. Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

Daniel Radcliffe

#37. We are really the victims of our own problems.

Jimmy Greaves