Leaches Quotes

#1. Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.

Helen Garner

#2. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

L. Neil Smith

#3. I carry a secret sense of accomplishment around with me, like a radium pack implanted near my heart that now leaches a quiet sense of relief through my system.

Anne Lamott

#4. Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined.

Marian Deegan

#5. It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Robert Silverberg

#6. The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Politicians are leaches, mostly.

Tibor R. Machan

#8. So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

Vinny Guadagnino

#9. Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race?

Steve Toltz

#10. Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#11. A thought is symbolic of all things processed through the laboratory of life's DNA.

C.C. Wyatt

#12. What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

Thomas Ligotti

#14. [T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

Milton Friedman

#15. and all who trained, slept, and shat within its walls.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#16. I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

Larisa Oleynik

#17. I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

Alice McDermott

#18. It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art ...

John Arbuthnot

#19. He knew for the first time ever that someone existed who actually cared for him.

Dan Skinner

#20. I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it.

Peter Ackroyd

#21. All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.

Douglas Jardine