Top 34 Morass Quotes
#1. By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
Jonathan Lethem
#2. We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt.
Philip K. Dick
#3. Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
Rene Dubos
#4. Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.
Peter Singer
#5. Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.
Atul Gawande
#6. Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
Sam Keen
#7. This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.
Lauren Beukes
#8. I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.
Alfred Bester
#9. Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say to Mr. X as he confronts the morass of his problem.
Howard Raiffa
#10. And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this ... this
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Rick Riordan
#11. I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
David Duchovny
#12. We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
Ilka Chase
#13. Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.
Herman Melville
#14. Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.
David O. Russell
#16. The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass that drowns the mouths from which it has come and subsumes the space almost entirely in black Finn (p112).
Jon Clinch
#17. It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the tall and the rain fell upon my head-and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.
Edgar Allan Poe
#18. While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
Fred Thompson
#19. Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
Camille Paglia
#20. 95% of romantic stories end with partners committing to each other because everything after that is just the blank terrifying morass of adulthood. This monotonous grind in which the only real excitement in your life is occasionally finding a truly ripe avocado at the grocery store.
John Green
#21. It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
Richard M. Nixon
#22. Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.
Thom S. Rainer
#23. Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.
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Karen Greco
#24. If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
Elliot W. Eisner
#25. Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ...
James Joyce
#26. Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Gary Zukav
#29. Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.
Elizabeth Van Lew
#30. Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.
Kerry King
#31. Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos ... A third element of man's nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.
John Brunner
#32. My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect ...
Walter Russell
#33. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
Patrick Henry
#34. She kissed him then, allowing him to relax. "I was able to make improvements to you, wasn't I?" "Those were only tweaks. I was already brilliant." The
Christine D'Abo
