The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear... In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy," And the lesser-known "bloviate," meaning, one imagines,... To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, tech...nological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that there are too many ...of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar, ...and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The brown waves of fog toss up to me Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,... And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts An aimless smile that hovers in the air And vanishes along the level of the roofs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is des...tructive only out of hatred and selfishness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but h...ungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »