"Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions."

-- Tanith Lee

#Men Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Causes Quotes

“So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.”

Source : John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.9, Vintage
“It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.”
“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
“The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.”
“This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.”

Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.96, Ballantine Books
“There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.”
“NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.”
“There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.”

You may also like: