Top 17 Populous Cities Quotes
#1. [245] "In large and populous cities," says the author of the Fable of the Bees, i, p. 133, "they wear clothes above their rank, and, consequently, have the pleasure of being esteemed by a vast majority, not as what they are, but what they appear to be.
Montesquieu
#2. In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.
Edward Gibbon
#4. You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
Asif Kapadia
#5. I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Jewel Staite
#6. A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Aristotle.
#7. When you say, "I'm just gonna think about God," what are you thinking about?
Art Hochberg
#8. He backed me into a wall, caging me in, got in my face and explained he is most definitely into me."
When I was done speaking, her lips were parted and her eyes were glazed.
"KC?" I called when she didn't say anything.
"Shh," she shushed me. "I'm having an orgasm.
Kristen Ashley
#9. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#10. Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
Jeffrey Bernard
#11. If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
Kristin Hannah
#13. ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.
Mohsin Hamid
#14. Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.
Steven Seagal
#15. No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.
Dave Chappelle
#16. In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature ...
James Bryce