Thronged Quotes

#1. The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention ... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Walter Scott

#2. We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Jane Addams

#3. I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Kate Christensen

#4. The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. He said, "If these were silent, the very stones would cry out." Under the impulse of His spirit arose like a clamorous chorus the facades of the mediaeval cathedrals, thronged with shouting faces and open mouths. The prophecy has fulfilled itself: the very stones cry out.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. A ghost mill, they called it, infested with all sorts of witches, phantoms, and monsters. It was as though the very timbers of the mill had soaked up the unearthly forces that seethed and thronged in the valley, like the wood of a wine barrel takes up the stain and scent of the wine.

Helen Grant

#7. He tracks the rise and fall of the glittering darkness thronged with specks and tendrils of luminous secrets. Falling stars crackle in the cold air and prickle his skin. They flash in the corner of his vision where the eye's discernment of light and shadow is most acute.

John Pipkin

#8. White villas glittered against the olive woods! What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!

Kenneth Grahame

#9. Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.

Peter Straub

#10. Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.

Richard Rolle

#11. In the end, the tenses of the verbs settled into a common groove, the persons of the narrators, first and third (the latter with so many variants and identities), became one, and events thronged toward a day that began uncertainly and remained undecided, with a light gray film covering the sky.

Filip Florian

#12. I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#13. What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky For a thronged tavern ... ?

John Keats

#14. The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

David Guterson

#15. I don't speak Otter, ya dumbass. What are ya waitin' for? Get over here so we can get back to the rez. Unless I'm talkin' to a real otter, in which case I'm the dumbass and you can just stay over there. I

Kevin Hearne

#16. Everything you want is hidden in faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. You're very passionate about your unhappiness aren't you, Chris?' I responded with, If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Laura Buzo

#18. The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#19. If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Al Sharpton

#20. Billy moved restlessly. "Seems like-seems like- towards night as if a body got kind o' lonesome for a woman person-like her." Billy indicated Margaret and then closed his eyes so tight his small face wrinkled.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#21. To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

Gertrude Bell

#22. The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

Joseph Addison

#23. He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Madeline Miller

#24. Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

Jim Rohn

#25. You were doing fine," a familiar voice informed my ear, "until that man stepped into your path.

Sylvia Plath

#26. I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days ... its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.

Serena Williams

#27. Let's just say it was obvious from a very early age the only female heart I'd ever break would be my mother's.

J.L. Merrow

#28. You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home

Elizabeth Chandler

#29. Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec