Lessened Def Quotes

#1. One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.

Sidney Huntington

#2. People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Berthold Auerbach

#3. I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. The people ... they are church-broken, nation-broken
they drink and pray and piss in the one place. Every man has a house-broken heart except the great man. The people love their church and know it, as a dog knows where he was made to conform, and there he returns by his instinct.

Djuna Barnes

#5. You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.

Steve McQueen

#6. Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

Alan Moore

#7. If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. No sane man sets out to save the world.

S.A. Bolich

#9. I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

Jim Evans