Nestful Crossword Quotes

#1. Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

Edgar Friedenberg

#2. Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Griffith Edwards

#3. The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

Bette Davis

#4. I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

David Copperfield

#5. Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

David Ignatius

#7. I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

Kevin Wilson

#8. Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

George Packer

#9. The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

Simone Weil

#10. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

Charles Darwin