To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer.... As soon as they consent to live..., the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that ca...n at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only necessary to outline briefly what h...as been the experience of everyone I have ever talked to or read about: the years go faster as one gets older. At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast! There are, of course, a number of common-sense explanations for this sort of thing. If you have only lived five years, a year represents 20 percent of your life; if you have lived fifty years, that same year represents only 2 percent of your life, and since lives are lived as wholes, this logarithmic element would make it difficult to maintain the same perspective on the experience of a year's passage throughout a lifetime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why any quick-witted and sensitive person should feel ashamed of having said good-by to politics, he couldn't imagine. The sordid ...intrigues behind the scenes! The conscious or unconscious hypocrisy of every form of effective public speaking! The asinine stupidity of that interminable repetition of the same absurd over-simplifications, the same illogical arguments and vulgar personalities, the same bad history and baseless prophecy! And that was supposed to be a man's highest duty. And if he chose instead the life of a civilized human being, he ought to be ashamed of himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was like being quite alone on the roof of the world. I felt that if I were to go to the edge and look over ... I would see belo...w all that I had ever known; all the crowded cities and seas covered with ships, and the clamor of harbors and traffic of rivers, and farmlands being worked, and herds of cattle driven in dust across interminable plains. All the clamor and clatter, confusion of voices, tumults, and conflicts, must still be going on, down there--over the edge, and below--but here there was only the sky, and a stillness made audible by the brittle grass. Emptiness was so perfect all around me that I felt a part of it, empty myself ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They have been waiting for us in a foetor Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,... Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure Of the expropriated mycologist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has m...eant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trees lay at full length, four or five feet deep, and crossing each other in all directions, all black as charcoal, but perfec...tly sound within, still good for fuel or for timber; soon they would be cut into lengths and burnt again. Here were thousands of cords, enough to keep the poor of Boston and New York amply warm for a winter, which only cumbered the ground and were in the settler's way. And the whole of that solid and interminable forest is doomed to be gradually devoured thus by fire, like shavings, and no man warmed by it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.... I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »